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Re: I smoked a good cigar from....
Sunday Bishop courtesy of my boy, Blue. @peter4jc
Thanks for the bodyguards!
Usaf06
Re: Post Every Boring Aspect Of Your Mundane Life Thread
@silvermouse said:
cute baby goats!
I hope to post a pic "any day now" of a new one!
Stubble
Re: What are you reading?
Research suggests people who read before bed every night have a fundamentally different brain than people who watch TV
What Happens When You Watch TV
Television is a fundamentally different cognitive experience. The brain is receiving rather than constructing. Images are provided. Sounds are provided. Emotional cues are delivered through music, pacing, and cinematography. Your brain doesn’t need to build anything. It just needs to process what’s being handed to it.
This isn’t inherently bad. Some television is genuinely excellent storytelling. But the neurological difference matters, especially before sleep. A causal analysis published in Human Brain Mapping using data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study found that screen use, particularly watching TV and movies, had a significant causal influence on lower language skills. The same study found that reading habits were positively associated with brain volume in multiple areas, including bilateral prefrontal cortex, insula, and temporal lobes, regions essential for cognitive control, emotional processing, and language.
The contrast is stark: screen time was linked to reduced cognitive performance and, in some cases, reduced brain volume. Reading was linked to the opposite on both counts.
Re: Post Every Boring Aspect Of Your Mundane Life Thread
Quibble has a sort of appropriate silliness about it.
