Throughout a very mentally taxing day of learning new and important things, the hippocampus becomes overtaxed, as it acts as a short-term memory reservoir. This can make one feel exhausted. During deep NREM sleep, a wave of electrical activity in the brain provides a path between the hippocampus and the cortex, which is the place … Continue reading The Memory Nap
A few months after the pandemic hit America I began to see many jokes and memes and feel a general sentiment from friends and family about how much 2020 sucked. While indulging friends while they did this, I never really got on board. With a shoulder surgery in January to fix a shoulder that continued … Continue reading Gratefulness for 2020
This post inspired by The Daily Stoic morning email from 12/07/2020 Thomas Jefferson owned slaves and defended this horrible institution by thinking of slaves in America as lower human begins. He had pulled the wool over his own eyes so that he could not see that his actions and decisions, based on the education he … Continue reading We are the problem
A somewhat short story that I don't want to get into right now (your imagination can fill in those details) was the cause of a desire to paint some rocks. So there I was, trying to paint an intricate design of Yggdrasil (click on the link for an image and description) on a rock. Much … Continue reading Painting Outside the Lines
Our long-ago, pre-civilized ancestors had it much more rough than we do today. Finding food and water, building a shelter, and starting a fire was a big part of the day. They had to take any and all of the short term rewards they could get, as they were fewer and further between. Any calories … Continue reading Evolution of Short Term Rewards
