@johngibbonsblog if Sweden/Ecuador are assigned to the US, there’s a chance they play someone from their group again before the quarters. FIFA wants to avoid that. no two teams from the same group should meet in a KO game until the QFs was their idea
“I wrote this because I can’t speak about it.
I wrote this because I want you to know that I will make sure that you live on.”
@RBLeipzig and @equipenatciv winger Yan Diomande on the life of his sister, Roxane. https://t.co/6wQmpdWTSi
You check your Apple Watch in the morning. Sleep score: 62. You decide it's going to be a foggy day. And then it is.
A 2014 Colorado College study suggests the score itself causes the fog.
164 people walked into a lab. Researchers hooked them up to fake EEG equipment and told them the readout would show their REM percentage from the night before. Then they fabricated a number. Half the room was told 28.7%. Half was told 16.2%. The machine wasn't measuring anything.
Participants took four cognitive tests. The Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test, where you add numbers spoken at increasing speed and hold your last sum in working memory while computing the next. And the Controlled Oral Word Association Task, where you generate as many words as you can starting with a single letter under time pressure. Both are gold-standard measures of attention and executive function used in clinical neurology.
The 28.7% group outperformed the 16.2% group on both. Significantly. How rested participants actually felt that morning predicted nothing.
The mechanism is mindset priming an executive resource. When you believe you slept well, you allocate cognitive effort more aggressively. You don't conserve. You don't pre-disengage. Belief about the resource changes how you spend it.
Two control conditions ruled out demand characteristics. Participants weren't trying harder because they thought they should. Real measurable cognitive performance shifted with the number on the readout.
The Apple Watch sleep score. The Oura ring readiness number. The morning ritual of checking either one is taxing the resource you're about to need.
The performance gap from a fabricated REM percentage was larger than the gap from how rested participants actually felt. The number was louder than the night.
my apologies i didn’t see this person with my eyes and couldn’t hear clearly. my reaction was pure confusion, sarcasm and not ill intended. could have handled it better! now i know what a Zaghrouta is!
I welcome all cheers and yodels from here on out
For the past year Slot has moaned about how PL teams don't want to play football and always references PSG as an example of a team which plays football "the right way". Now he has the chance to play PSG again and he comes out with a back 5, parks the bus and plays like Tony Pulis
Artemis II crew is thousands of miles away from Earth
And they’re asking ground crew for help because they have two versions of Microsoft Outlook open and neither is working
This scene is now canon 😭
Mohamed Salah is to bring the curtain down on his illustrious career with Liverpool Football Club at the end of the 2025-26 season.
The time to fully celebrate his legacy and achievements will follow later in the year when he bids farewell to Anfield ❤️
I was rejected from woke PhD programs for my "un-PC" idea: ancient migrations can shape culture & psychology. So I proved it alone.
My new peer-reviewed @APA paper shows East Asian personality may stem from Ice Age Siberia ~20000 yrs ago❄️
📖https://t.co/mlPTG7fgMr
How so?🧵👇
The Niners had to play the Mahomes dynasty Chiefs in the Super Bowl twice and the Seahawks get to play the San Jose State club flag football team, nice.