When I was a little kid, the school had me repeatedly tested to see where my IQ was but couldn't pin it down because I refused to complete the tests, so they just marked it as "at least 135" and put me into some sort of state controlled gifted program with additional monitoring.
The school then referred me to a specialist, and my parents would drive me very far to go see a special doctor. I liked it because the doctors would just watch me while I built Legos, and then we'd do some logic exercises that I enjoyed. There was always a counseling session attached to it as well where one doctor would ask questions and the other would take notes. I vividly remember being particularly interested in the fact that they had gold Legos, and the doctors wanted me to incorporate them into what I built- a task that I now recognize as testing to see how I handled off-nomimal instructions.
I always had fun because afterward, my dad would take me to Pizza Hut for the buffet, and the doctors would occasionally give me hot wheels cars.
Then, on the advice of these doctors, they took me to an experimental place where they hooked me up to machines to measure my brainwaves and try to "fix" my brain performance through a combination of lights, sounds, sensors, and shocks.
I had to go to this training where they would strap me into an (admittedly comfortable) chair for two hours with sensors all over my head, and I would get a mild shock every time I lost focus, and they would try to use sounds and abstract images projected onto a screen in front of me to try to help me "improve my brain activity". I would regularly complete tests and cognitive exercises as part of this.
I went there for about a year before it stopped. I asked why and all my parents said was that "it's a government program and the government doesn't want to pay for it anymore"
I don't really know how this all impacted me because I almost immediately buried all memory of it. I didn't regain memory of it until almost 15 years later, when I smelled an odor very similar to the office where I went. It caused me to have such a negative response that I was a wreck for months, and it seriously contributed to killing a four year relationship.
Now, I seem to remember it once per year around late October. I don't know why.
To this day, I still don't know who any of those people were, what their jobs were, or what the purpose was. My dad remembers taking me, but all he says is "they never really told me anything"
Chris Mundy on why they cast Aaron Pierre as John Stewart
"It's a tricky role because there's a physicality to believing that someone is a superhero, and then there's a physicality to the character of John Stewart. He was a Marine sniper, which requires a certain kind of focus and diligence. After the Marines, he becomes an architect, so there's an artistic side to him. Those are a lot of elements that an actor has got to be able to project. And Aaron is someone who understands that physicality as a trained theater actor. We talked a lot about that how being a Marine is John's job, but it's not his entire personality. He's as much an artist as he is a Marine. There's a real balance of the physical and the artistic that's just innately inside of Aaron, and I think it's essential. If we're doing our jobs well as writers, we're not stating all this stuff out loud. We're trusting that our actors can fulfill that role. The audience has to believe that he could take a guy down with one punch, and also believe that he could sketch intricate portraits of his family and birds and all these beautiful things".
Via:(https://t.co/DBQF3cM9wy)
Un grupo de científicos argentinos del CONICET y de universidades públicas encontró restos de un dinosaurio al que llamaron Joaquinraptor casali. Fue hallado junto a fósiles de un cocodrilo cerca del Lago Colhué Huapi en Chubut. Vivió hace 70 millones de años y era carnívoro.
Bueno, la jugada es la siguiente: hoy a las 20hs voy a hacer un tuit con una foto de la primera aparición de Godzilla, las respuestas van a salir en la película (solo no hagan referencia a que es una película, obvio). Pueden responder también que les parece trucha, inventen.
@radikum6 @facundonievas76@Paralyticscac Te espere en la esquina que me dijiste primero. Fui a la otra esquina después. Pregunté por vos y nadie era Dragonite Sabalero. Estuve 15 o 20 minutos en cada esquina SOLO y nadie me vino a preguntar nada.