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@SecondJon I am only tangentially familiar with Crossfit as a practice, mainly physiology studies but the language herein is wildly disturbing.

I cannot say how many time I've had to debunk the myth of multitasking. Here's a good breakdown for all crowds.

https://goodmenproject.com/guy-talk/smart-people-dont-multitask-fiff/

"My hope is that not just scientists, but people with opinions and political stakes in general, can seriously consider the fact that people who don’t share their political viewpoints have something valuable to say—and even if they don’t have something valuable to say about a particular political topic, that their different experience and perspective has likely given them access to other kinds of information that will be valuable and new to you."

http://nautil.us/issue/70/variables/wikipedia-and-the-wisdom-of-polarized-crowds

A first in many cases: The allocation of funds to attack the problem of consciousness and the first (to my knowledge) structured adversarial collaboration between scientists proposing opposing theories that are both quantifiable.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/neuroscience-readies-for-a-showdown-over-consciousness-ideas-20190306/

Blue Brain solves a century-old neuroscience problem - Neuroscience News

A mathematical algorithm developed by the Blue Brain Project can objectively classify different shapes of neurons in the brain. The algorithm has already helped researchers objectively identify 17 types of pyramidal neurons in the somatosensory cortex of a rat.

https://neurosciencenews.com/blue-brain-cell-types-10929/

Remember Massive Attack's "Mezzanine" album? Well now you can listen to it in a painting. The entire album was stored on synthetic DNA and loaded into a can of spray paint.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-47372219/massive-attack-album-stored-in-a-painting-using-dna

Anger (and other emotions) are contagious. Here's how to stop the spread with non-complementary behavior.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/02/25/697052006/anger-can-be-contagious-heres-how-to-stop-the-spread

An intriguing premise. The conception and possible shortcomings of "willpower."

http://nautil.us/issue/45/power/against-willpower

@freemo The statement "America doesn't have two major political parties" is demonstrably false. The structure of American government is setup presently and historically as a two-party system. If you're interested in why countries with free elections evolve toward the two-party system I would suggest you check out Duverger's law. And saying that there is nothing giving those two parties an advantage is equally false. Campaign finance laws and corporate lobbying alone. I am not trying to be combative, I just don't want misinformation being spread around if I can prevent. Are you, perhaps, trying to say something else?

@freemo I assume you're knowledgeable enough to know making brash and broad generalizations about complex systems in something as reductive as a meme so you must have posted this because you thought it was funny. It is, superficially of course. However, I'm often suspicious of these types of memes and behaviors as they're indicative of a troll with no articulate axe to grind; it's rampant on most social media platforms. So I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to bait. The right side of this picture is nothing but a string of ad hominem vitriol unworthy of attention. The left side, however, displays two very egregious problems coming under increased scrutiny in the past 10 or so years. It is not "extremist" to address racism and homophobia. You may not know the extent that word gets bandied about in America and the connotations that it has accreted but it is an inflammatory one meant to fearmonger and distract. And I don't even know if I want to go down the rabbit hole of what is meant by "normal person." But I will say that what is meant by "normal" is nearly meaningless to scientist. I suppose I should now ask: Did you have a specific goal in mind when you posted this meme or was it just something meant to be innocuous?