My first experience with memory loss (first I can remember anyway) was in elementary. I would get in trouble for not having my homework. This baffled my mom because she would watch me do it, watch me put it in my bag, check that ot was there before I went to school, but somewhere in between that and turning it in, I would lose it, and have no memory of what happened. As far as I knew there was a black hole in my backpack because I didn't know where else it could've gone to.
What's worse, falsely remembering something, or not remembering it at all? Anytime someone asks if I do remember, I have a mini-panic attack, where I desperately comb through my memory to see if it's even there. Once I find it, I have to really scrutinize it to make sure it's an actual memory and not a false one. Typically I lean towards just saying I don't remember and being filled in; though that can lead to its own set of problems.
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Panel 1: Kyra is talking to a person, and the person asks "Hey, do you remember a little while ago when _________ happened?"
Panel 2: A close up of Kyra's head, with a nervous sweat symbol. Her internal monologue reads: Oh shoot! I'm not sure! I do remember something like that, but the memory is hazy and feels a little unreal, so can I really be sure that I do? What if I say I do remember it and they start asking things I don't have answers for? What if what I think I remember...didn't actually happen at all?
Panel 3: Another close up of her head, this time with frustration marks. Her internal monologue continues: But is falsely remembering it worse than not remembering at all? What if something meaningful happened? What if by saying I don't remember that offends them? Should I pretend to, and hope that context clues can save me? But if they find out, that might offend them. Crap, I need to answer soon.
Panel 4: Kyra responds to the person with "Let's just say I do...but I would rather hear you tell it."
barrierspark asked:
Not sure if someone has brought this to your attention, but someone has stolen your Princess and the Pauper fanfic and is trying to sell it on Amazon as their own. Their name is Dortha Melton - also stole my best friend's fanfic and is doing the same.
If you are still on Tumblr and remember at all the context of this post. Which fanfic are you referring to?
arnaultdorothea asked:
If you're still open to request suggestions: F1, Soft Goth, Aversa or Camilla? No worries if not! I've enjoyed the ones I've seen so far, and your art in general -- keep up the great work!
kiss kiss fall in love~ ( ˘ ³˘)♥ I love how you guys asked for the same palette color lolol ( palette meme here ) Thank you for your sweets words!! (´ε｀*) *muah*
1. Doctor finds anecdotal evidence that people are passing kidney stones after riding on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disney World
2. Doctor makes 3-D model of kidney, complete with stones and urine (his own), takes it on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad 60 times
3. “The stones passed 63.89 percent of the time while the kidneys were in the back of the car. When they were in the front, the passage rate was only 16.67 percent. That’s based on only 60 rides on a single coaster, and Wartinger guards his excitement in the journal article: ‘Preliminary study findings support the anecdotal evidence that a ride on a moderate-intensity roller coaster could benefit some patients with small kidney stones.’”
4. “Some rides are going to be more advantageous for some patients than other rides. So I wouldn’t say that the only ride that helps you pass stones is Big Thunder Mountain. That’s grossly inaccurate.”
5. “His advice for now: If you know you have a stone that’s smaller than five millimeters, riding a series of roller coasters could help you pass that stone before it gets to an obstructive size and either causes debilitating colic or requires a $10,000 procedure to try and break it up. And even once a stone is broken up using shock waves, tiny fragments and “dust” remain that need to be passed. The coaster could help with that, too.”
SCIENCE: IT WORKS
Update:
“In all, we used 174 kidney stones of varying shapes, sizes and weights to see if each model worked on the same ride and on two other roller coasters,” Wartinger said. “Big Thunder Mountain was the only one that worked. We tried Space Mountain and Aerosmith’s Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster and both failed.”Wartinger went on to explain that these other rides are too fast and too violent with a G-force that pins the stone into the kidney and doesn’t allow it to pass.“The ideal coaster is rough and quick with some twists and turns, but no upside down or inverted movements,” he said.
I just love this because it’s HILARIOUS and yet also a perfect archetypal example of The Scientific Method:
1. Hypothesis
2. Experiment
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
6. GOTO 1 (the scientific method is iterative, don’t forget that part)
was this like… done in cooperation with disney management or did some random scientist go through bag check with a 3d printed kidney and a bottle of piss and start looking for big thunder mountain fastpasses
Of course, the researchers had to get permission from Disney World before bringing the model kidney onto the rides. “It was a little bit of luck,” Wartinger recalls. “We went to guest services, and we didn’t want them to wonder what was going on—two adult men riding the same ride again and again, carrying a backpack. We told them what our intent was, and it turned out that the manager that day was a guy who recently had a kidney stone. He called the ride manager and said, do whatever you can to help these guys, they’re trying to help people with kidney stones.”
