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Wandering soul...

[fofik @benfofik]

Aranızda ünlülerin ciddi ciddi atlet kilot satarak para kazandigini dusunen var miydi

[A Constant Risk of Fire @SeeDaviGo]

Jesus what an incredible face. Even in a wig made of hay

[🔻☭★ @Communist977]

Indians think they are white.

[rayane 𓃮 @EsotericaHQ]

POV: You realize the reason you've been broke your whole life was never about money.

[✥ @qamrlight]

tawakulmaxxing

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The research behind this is wild. If you played Pokémon as a kid, you have a tiny region in your brain that exists only because of Pokémon. Not a metaphor. Stanford put people in brain scanners and found it.

The study was published in Nature Human Behavior in 2019. They scanned 11 adults who grew up glued to their Game Boys and 11 who never played. When they showed both groups images of the original 151, the players' brains lit up in one specific spot every time. Same spot across all 11 people. The non-players showed zero response.

That spot is a little fold in the back of your brain that normally processes things like animal shapes and cartoon faces. In the Pokémon players, a chunk of it had been permanently reassigned. Their brains carved out a Pokémon department sometime around age 6 or 7 and just never took it down.

And the reason it ended up in the same place in everyone's brain comes down to the Game Boy itself. The screen was 2.6 inches. Every kid held it at roughly the same distance. So those 151 characters hit the exact same patch of each kid's retina, thousands of times, during the years when the brain is still soft enough to reorganize itself. Where an image hits your retina in childhood is what tells your brain where to build the wiring.

Reading works the same way. Humans invented writing about 5,000 years ago. There's zero evolutionary reason for a brain region dedicated to recognizing words. But every person who learns to read grows one, roughly the size of a dime, in the same part of the brain.

Brain-imaging research from 2018 actually watched it appear in children's heads as they learned their letters. It grew by quietly taking over nearby tissue that wasn't doing much yet. Stanford published a follow-up this year showing this region is way smaller or missing entirely in kids with dyslexia, and that 8 weeks of intense reading practice physically grew it back.

London taxi drivers show the same thing in a completely different part of the brain. Brain scans from a 2000 study found the region that stores mental maps had physically expanded, and the longer they'd been driving, the bigger it got. These drivers spend 3 to 4 years memorizing 25,000 streets before they get licensed. About half wash out.

The common thread is childhood. Harvard researchers trained young monkeys to recognize new shapes and they developed brand-new brain regions in predictable locations. Adult monkeys trained on the same shapes never got those structural changes. The young brain wires itself in a way the adult brain cannot replicate.

If you're wondering whether a Pokémon patch in your brain means you lost something else, no. The region sits alongside your normal visual processing areas, not on top of them. Your brain has hundreds of millions of neurons in that zone alone. The lead author noted that every participant in the study had gone on to earn a PhD.

[𝚣𝚎𝚎𝚣 @wtfzeezco]

“why did you ghost everyone”

[🍉 @WhiteRedBullCan]

@FootballEra_ Henrys competition was way more fierce and the players he was up against

[Pastor Who @PastorMarvy]

The internet is hands down the greatest invention ever created. These clowns would have rewritten history if the internet didn’t exist.

[Pepe @mariam_abluth]

I can promise you no one but the Jews in Golder Green would know where these ambulances are. Fckn hell.

[Laura Elliott @TinyWriterLaura]

everyone in the UK says gen-zee even if they usually use zed at the end of the alphabet, the same way we also say Jay-Z and Dragon Ball Z

this is the stupidest attempt at faux-outrage i’ve seen all year

[Clown Prince of Comics @Cheesymanfredo]

They say “We” in order to avoid naming the real culprits

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

They broke this down in a way it could be understood even by Americans who don’t know where Iran is on a map or how to pronounce it correctly

[Huthaifa | حذيفة @Shack_Rat]

It’s time for Muslims to familiarize themselves with this Hadith again

[🍉 @WhiteRedBullCan]

@miaction23 happy birthday slat 🤍

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

I love how this is entirely due to greater transparency enforced by law lmao

[SwagKirb @Swag_K1RBY]

Ratatouille gave a great explanation about this

[𝐃𝐈𝐆𝐁 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @_DIGB]

REMINDER: If you’re an average punter and the authorities find evidence you’re watching BBC services without a TV licence they’ll fine you £1000 and take you to court but if they find evidence that you’re a billionaire that’s part of a paedophile ring they’ll take no action

[🍉 @WhiteRedBullCan]

@saracrypto_eth broke scammers like u....
$WhiteDog