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1. 25 days ago on Frazz

   LOL! Look at it as forming new neural pathways which will serve you down the line. I at times hate (sometimes really hate) learning new things, too. It depends on the topics. We all do and at my age people do harp on being sure to tackle such topics. So, sorry about that, but I hoped it at least helped.

2. 25 days ago on Frazz

   That has to be very useful for some types of organization and recall, though. There are likely people who envy you.

   My husband gets multicolor, shifting light shows for music, especially classical music. Obviously, music is never played when he is driving. Occasionally, when tackling an especially difficult solution in math he will experience shapes in his hands and finally will know he has the solution when the shape feels right, a type of synesthesia his doctoral advisor had even more strongly, IF my memory for the stronger possessor of that perspective serves.

3. 25 days ago on Frazz

   Oh, and having an inner voice is common, but might also vary. Some of us navigate with our monologue pretty much constant.

   When might another voice intrude in a health brain? Well, we each have an inner critical voice, don’t we? If you ask yourself, “Whose voice is it?” it becomes a pretty safe bet that most of us will know our own personal answer to that from our own life experiences.

   There are certainly other situations, like when something reminds you strongly of a certain individual then a sound memory of that voice might happen. It is really cool how much is in the memory but just needs the right pathway found. Learning and yet learning more throughout life helps build multiple pathways and that can possibly be an important defense of function against the ravages of time and illness.

4. 25 days ago on Frazz

   Okay, the newborn brain has a LOT of pathways in it and for while those increase, but then are clipped. It is very possible that all infants have synesthesia and hyperphantasia. Too much of that creates a very chaotic mental environment to navigate. Solution: trim. Which are clipped and to what degree may be the determining factors for what is normally consciously present and what may be in the background, sometimes well in the background. For example, people with aphantasia, despite missing the ability to form visual images at will (and even manipulate those as some people can), certainly dream with images, get visual PTSD overlays (which appear to use the same pathways as dreaming) and may even experience a “brain video” of changing images while falling asleep. So, the images are there and likely influencing the thought process but more subtly than for the majority of people who can see images at will while awake. Similarly, when we look at onomatopoeia and descriptive phrases, etc there are hints of possible inaccessible echoes of what may have been much younger synesthesia which now helps inform the brain without being an obvious and readily accessible player.

5. 25 days ago on Frazz

   Sorry, but no. It is not.

6. 25 days ago on Frazz

   Everyone’s brain is wired a bit differently than everyone else’s. Synesthesia is extremely more common in physicists and mathematicians than in the general population, something that was not realized until neurologists studying it realized they had found a goldmine in BNL. Recently, it was noticed that there is a strong correlation for aphantasia among those who have succeeded in certain other sciences. These variations likely serve functions that ease being able to navigate certain types of mental inquiry. Hyperphantasia might be the origin of court sense in sports and perhaps plays a role in group hunting.

   We each of us have unique brains.

7. 5 months ago on Frazz

   What week the planting season starts has changed, too. So, between new varieties and (even more around here in the NE) with the planting season starting earlier due to climate change we ALREADY have 20¢ an ear local corn in grocery stores (cheaper in farm stands) and it is really good this year. The earliest used to be a month later here just a couple of decades ago.

   One thing i have noticed since CoVID was in pandemic stage is that supply chain problems still mess up availability of national and international products so they are less likely to be on sale than local products. Local products have great sales, and the ones which are not seasonal have their sales also happening more often.

   Friends in states scattered around the U.S. have encountered the same pattern. So, corn and tomatoes are cheap and great here, but those and celery and citrus, which are grown a lot near a set of friends thousands of miles away, are the reverse for pricing for our two families. Which varieties are available for produce also differs between us.

   It is very, very, very much how things were when we seniors were in our twenties and younger. Shades of the old days, all because of changes to the distribution industry.

   Many people have not revised their menu planning yet to reflect what is most available near them, but that is the best way to adjust to the distribution system having changed: cheaper and healthier and less polluting. Crave the old days? This was part of them! What was old is new again.

8. 6 months ago on Rob Rogers

   Naw. Do NOT call him 45. Call him 34.

9. 6 months ago on Mike Luckovich

   Funny, but a better grasp of decimal points would have gone a long way to make it funnier. As written it is 0.8% or close to 1% of the vote. I SUSPECT that what was MEANT was either 0.008% or close to one one-hundreth of the electorate, or perhaps a number approaching one one-thousandth (8 in ten thousand instead of 10 in ten thousand). If the latter was meant then using the place-keeper 0 before the decimal point would be 0.0008%.

10. 8 months ago on Clay Jones

    I recall an interview Fred Sr had when he mentioned that Donald was on a transcontinental flight and then added that it would probably be good for everyone if it crashed.