I was watching a video documentary on the Larry Ray sex cult and it made me think how repressed memories seems so hokey to me. I never forget anything traumatic. They may be out-of-mind, but if I bring any to recall, it's vivid, or at least my mind conjures a vivid recollection surrounding it ( Read more... )

Vocabulary slowly leaking as you age is so fucking annoying.

Why that song is stuck in your head

I have a much more extreme view of spoilers than anyone I've ever encountered. Here's an email response to a friend trying to understand what spoilers mean to me. Am I crazy? Enjoy!

Spoiler: "to diminish or impair the quality of; affect detrimentally"New books, movies, games, music are personal in-the-moment experiences. I don't want to ( Read more... )

Do not fear losing your memory and memories. The experience of the thing is real. The memory of the experience is an aftereffect.

It took 1 min 47 seconds for my memory to become host to a horror that will never goA good (if old) article about why you should be selective about what you look at on the internet, no matter how tempting ( Read more... )

Wiping portions of a person's memory is immoral and torture. Even if done to a criminal as punishment for a crime ( Read more... )

Quite possibly the most poignant lyrics i've ever heard in a song. Goosebump-inducing for sure.

History is never written ( Read more... )

Only recently discovered their excellent youtube channel. Went through the whole list, watched interesting sounding ones, and here are my top 5:

#1 Can Plants Think?
#2 Could We Record Our Dreams?
#3 The Scientific Power of Music
#4 Why Do People Obsess Over Sports?
#5 Can We Genetically Improve Intelligence?

The top 2 in particular blew my mind.

Study reveals why adults can't remember infancy