Recent content by David777

This hour long YouTube Zoom discussion between two young neuroscience professionals discusses the subject without getting into much technical terminology. They do a good job of touching on the range of questions those thinking about the subject wonder about and why they themselves are rather...

Am starting this thread, because some senior SeniorForums dot com members obviously from reading their postings, don't understand much about virus diseases a possible serious issue to we old folks. If you had an infection during the summer or now in early fall, it is much more likely to be...

For those that have taken hallucinogens, the perception of time moves more slowly, the more so expanded, the more seeming so. However, while affected so, one only is aware that is the case after some time has passed and then one looks at a clock, only to be surprised to find much less time...

In this era, playing Scrabble online, just like with video games, there are too many others that may cheat just like they did to get through school. Google AI: do online scrabble players cheat? Yes, some online Scrabble players do cheat, often by using third-party apps called "word-finders"...

The seeming passage of time during human lifetimes is like that of a bowling ball rolling down a many miles long gradient, accelerating accelerating. Looking back, the perception of our lives for those that say have lived to age 80 years, might be that one had lived half their life after...

Newly free to view on YouTube, the rather violent but well directed and entertaining, 2004 film, Collateral, with Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, and Jada Pickett Smith. Highly recommended: What's over that hill? I want to go see!

During my late twenties while I suffered 3 years of painful medical issues and could barely eat any food, though could go to work in my career, I occupied my time at home outside of work by playing, absorbed in a type of solo Scrabble I invented. I memorized many special high value words...

Almost feeling normal now, after coming down with COVID-19, a week ago. Wednesday will run another test kit at day 8 to help confirm, am no longer contagious. Looking forward to next Saturday and in the mean time, will remain at home. But there is more ways viruses are attacking than just our...

Our minds and nervous systems are difficult subjects for ordinary people to meaningfully address. That is one reason I started the below thread 12 days ago concerning more up to date nervous system science to help members here meaningfully structure how they think about such. My posts #8 and...

Some more Nervous System 101 basics for the sake of describing these systems correctly while using appropriate abbreviations: Our Central Nervous System, CNS, is the brain and spinal cord part of the nervous system. The Peripheral Nervous System, PNS, consists of includes the cranial nerves...

There are several such services, and some are potentially dangerous sources of malware, as they may not bother to protect or screen what users might upload. Anything one can web upload, is innately a more dangerous source of malware. Given it is the 800 pound Gorilla of videos, numbers of...

As a tech person, I refuse to use online banking and only suffer having to do what everyone did decades ago, receiving bills via USPS mail, then sending out via USPS, stamped envelopes, paper checks. That way, I escape the ever-changing and potentially hackable digital landscapes. A couple...

Have seen such philosophy/psychology questions before. Psychotherapists use non-science based non-technical explanations like the OP's question to explain such ideas in order to help persons that suffer from say Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) that features patterns of unwanted thoughts and...

Thanks. Was one of the last to come down with the disease in October of 2023, just after attending the huge 3-day Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival that was no doubt the likeliest source. I seem to be healing faster this time as that took 2 weeks just for sinus issues to end and 4 weeks before...

This is long dead but slowly decaying ancient bristlecone pine snag in the White Mountains at over 11,000 feet within other dead trees mid frame and living trees in the distance, many over a millennia old. The pitch dense wood weathers slowly in its harsh timberline environment. With winter...