Feed Your Brain

Cool shelf! Future husband, can we get one? Source from here

If you, by chance, find my Facebook page and see nothing but tagged photos, that's because I keep it that way since ages--guess I've stopped updating Facebook since 2012. But I'm not entirely inactive. I almost sign in Facebook every day. It's the media where I can observe some of my friends' life achievements which end up make me miserable about mine and not displaying any response to it. I like to be invisible, a judgemental silent reader. But, I think the foremost reason why I sign in to Facebook on a daily basis is because I can find some interesting links (news and updates) which my friends shared. Some are stupid, some are hilarious, but there are considerably number of enlightening information too.

From the links they shared I did an "exploration" and found the official homepage of the information bits. I simply wanted to know what kind of website that hosts this interesting topic. So I found I fucking love science (damn cool the name!) and Vox. Later on, I also found New Scientist and Futurity. These add my reading list after TED (both TED Talks and TedEd). Beside the websites surfing on my (office) desktop, I sometimes read articles in Flipboard science section on my tablet (I chose style, home, travel, film, and celebrity to appear in my homepage Flipboard, aside from science, though).

What I am going with this is that sometimes I read too much I can't write. Haha, that's just an excuse. No, I mean, it is important to keep myself, yourself, ourselves--to feed our brain as often as we feed our stomach. I don't know how to put it because now part of my brain is booing me because I may be wrong (considering some readers' response). But for me, personally, I do it to keep me sane. To keep my brain well-fed. To maintain to not stupid while I entertain myself. And I'm pretty much enjoy myself who love to seek some new knowledge, and science is a part of it.

Nerd? Good.

Weird? Brilliant.

Oh, and what I wanted to share with you is that just minutes ago, I found an article titled Scans Map The Brain As People Read Harry Potter.

Interesting fact number one is the technology can be used in the future to know what exactly the problem in one's brain with dyslexia, stroke, or learning trouble. Interesting fact number two is (wait this is what I implied, not stated in the article) reading is paramount. It activates a lot of brain cells to comprehend something we read, as I quote from the article: "Those findings suggest how words are integrated into memory--how the brain first visually perceives a word and then begins accessing the properties of the word and fitting it into the story context.".

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That is one of the reasons why this year I'm excited for "a book a month" project. So far it has been going pretty well. This is, like, the first year I actually read a book a month and that feels really good. I want my future children to be smart. Since intelligence is inherited from the mother, I'm responsible to not make myself stupid in order to produce clever offspring. Aaand, of course, their father should be intelligent too so he can teach and show them profound life values.

Ookay, that was a long rambling passage. 

Here's a point: I do realize that there are many kinds of intelligence. I'm maybe good at linguistic and existential, but very sloppy in logical and intra/interpersonal intelligence. I guess the best thing for us is to embrace and maximize it as long as we live. Those what I wrote about is simply my way to add and sharpen my existing knowledge of science. Go find yours. ;)

Cheers!