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er, probably. Well, this might surprise you but did you know according to Psychology Today that smelling coffee can increase your attention and memory? That's right. They did a little study where they just gave people the smell of coffee and it gave them some of the mental benefits of actually drinking coffee. And then they made this mistake. They called it the placebo effect. No, that's not the…
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So I feel like the reason that the people smelling coffee performed better is because it triggered their past memory, not because it influenced their expectations of what would work. That's what I think anyway.
Here's some backward science. According to University College London, adults who frequently post on social media are more at risk of developing mental health problems. So apparently it doesn't hurt you so much to consume social media. That's not highly correlated with mental problems. But if you post a lot and you also consume it, it's highly correlated with mental problems.
So did this study show that the more you post the more likely you'll have a mental problem? No, I think it's backward science. Backwards science. Let me explain what I mean.
If you've ever had incredibly good sex with somebody you were in a long-term relationship with and you were in love with, and you remember how good that felt while you were doing it, when you were right in the middle of it, did you ever feel a pressing need to post something on social media? Or were you perfectly happy doing what you were doing at the moment? I'm going to say you were happy. So could it be that rather than posting on social media gives you mental problems, could it be that if you're not happy with your life you're looking for something outside of your life to give you a little thrill?
I've got a feeling that being unhappy is what makes you post. I don't think that the posting is so much what makes you unhappy. But I think both are true. I think it's true both ways. But I think it's more about unhappy people are looking for something to fill the need. And if you were already happy you probably wouldn't do a lot of posting except maybe family pictures or something.
According to The Hill, the Pentagon has finally admitted they don't know what's up with UFOs. So apparently in the past there have been a lot of denying and obfuscating. There's a word I read a lot but I don't say out loud a lot. Obfuscating. Hey Bob, you've been obfuscating. I never say that word. I only read it.
So apparently during some briefing with the reporters this new director of the Pentagon department to look for these anomalous flying things said, quote, "There are interesting cases that I, with my physics and engineering background and time in the intelligence community, I do not understand. And I don't know anybody else who understands them either."
All right. I'm still at no for UFOs being aliens from other planets. I think I'm still at no for any kind of early human beings who are hidden below the ocean who come out every now and then with their high-tech to look at the uncivilized people. Probably not. Probably not. Not impossible. I mean I like thinking about those things being possible recreationally but no, I don't think so.
I think that when somebody says you know I can't explain it with my physics and engineering background, that all it means is I can't explain it with my engineering and physics background. So the only thing we know for sure is that we don't know anything. That's pretty far from saying aliens have visited the planet. I don't know why I'm seeing what I see. That's all you know. You don't know anything else. You only know that you don't know.
So I don't think that got us closer to adm
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itting there's some kind of other kind of life force here. Maybe. Well according to The Independent there's this new scientific breakthrough in China where they made camouflage material that will instantly change color to match your background, sort of like animals do, chameleons. So if you wear these clothes you will just sort of disappear into the background. Now since you don't wear clothes on…
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