7 Expert Cons Your Brain Pulls On You
This week’s Prompt For The Promptless is about counterintuition. Counterintuition is a seemingly simple concept–it represents a truth that is contrary to common sense or the expectations of intuition....
View ArticleA Case Of The Mumbles
As I discussed in the post CHS Syndrome, I can’t hear shit. I am partially deaf in both ears, but my right ear is useless for all but picking up background noises. One thing I forgot to mention in that...
View ArticleMy FAIL Brain
I have a fail brain. It’s obvious in the post A Case Of The Mumbles and every post labeled with the tag Brain Fail. My brain was severely smacked by a stage light when I was younger leaving me with...
View Article10 Things I Hate Part 22: Memory Edition
I have a shit memory. A lot of you are probably saying, “Me too!” but I bet you that my memory is shittier than yours. When I was around nineteen or twenty years old, when my brainpan was still gelling...
View ArticleFirst Day Of School After A Traumatic Head Injury
Daily Post Prompt: Tell us about your first day at something — your first day of school, first day of work, first day living on your own, first day blogging, first day as a parent, whatever. When I was...
View ArticleFun Ways My Brain Sucks
My brain has been through a lot. When I was an infant, it was attacked by pneumococcal meningitis causing deafness, severe migraines throughout my childhood and learning impairment. When I was about...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Brain FAIL
Yesterday, I wrote a post about age and how short our lives are. I said, “I don’t want to be
View ArticleThe Mutable Nature Of Human Mechanisms
That title is really just a fancy way of saying our memories are not to be trusted. Your perfectly normal
View ArticleTraumatic Brain Injuries & Recovered Memories
I was conked on the head by a stage light and it damaged my memory. Since I was only twenty
View ArticleWe’re All Liars
In the wake of the Brian Williams scandal, where he was called out for repeatedly telling an anecdote that wasn’t
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