Omari Marcel

SHOW ME THE ALIENS 👽🤣 My very first stand-up comedy clip. Do things you always wanted to do.

The research behind this is wild. If you played Pokémon as a kid, you have a tiny region in your brain that exists only because of Pokémon. Not a metaphor. Stanford put people in brain scanners and found it. The study was published in Nature Human Behavior in 2019. They scanned 11 adults who grew up glued to their Game Boys and 11 who never played. When they showed both groups images of the original 151, the players' brains lit up in one specific spot every time. Same spot across all 11 people. The non-players showed zero response. That spot is a little fold in the back of your brain that normally processes things like animal shapes and cartoon faces. In the Pokémon players, a chunk of it had been permanently reassigned. Their brains carved out a Pokémon department sometime around age 6 or 7 and just never took it down. And the reason it ended up in the same place in everyone's brain comes down to the Game Boy itself. The screen was 2.6 inches. Every kid held it at roughly the same distance. So those 151 characters hit the exact same patch of each kid's retina, thousands of times, during the years when the brain is still soft enough to reorganize itself. Where an image hits your retina in childhood is what tells your brain where to build the wiring. Reading works the same way. Humans invented writing about 5,000 years ago. There's zero evolutionary reason for a brain region dedicated to recognizing words. But every person who learns to read grows one, roughly the size of a dime, in the same part of the brain. Brain-imaging research from 2018 actually watched it appear in children's heads as they learned their letters. It grew by quietly taking over nearby tissue that wasn't doing much yet. Stanford published a follow-up this year showing this region is way smaller or missing entirely in kids with dyslexia, and that 8 weeks of intense reading practice physically grew it back. London taxi drivers show the same thing in a completely different part of the brain. Brain scans from a 2000 study found the region that stores mental maps had physically expanded, and the longer they'd been driving, the bigger it got. These drivers spend 3 to 4 years memorizing 25,000 streets before they get licensed. About half wash out. The common thread is childhood. Harvard researchers trained young monkeys to recognize new shapes and they developed brand-new brain regions in predictable locations. Adult monkeys trained on the same shapes never got those structural changes. The young brain wires itself in a way the adult brain cannot replicate. If you're wondering whether a Pokémon patch in your brain means you lost something else, no. The region sits alongside your normal visual processing areas, not on top of them. Your brain has hundreds of millions of neurons in that zone alone. The lead author noted that every participant in the study had gone on to earn a PhD.

Brandy and Zendaya on the backstage of Good Morning America

growing up is realizing everything you liked at 13 was dope as fuck

nobody coming to save you also implies no one is coming to stop you

I saw wade win a ring at age 24 with his second best player averaging 13ppg in the finals, please stop talking to me about James Harden

i haven’t met all of me yet

Routine! Exercise! Community!

Tyler and Bam when we about to get a lottery pick

Why is it that these folks “find” religion and immediately go on anti gay rants? It’s a pedophile in the Oval. Black rights and women’s rights being peeled back daily. The US is bombing TODDLERS in Middle East. Its genocides in Sudan and Congo. Why can’t you talk about THAT?

In 2 years you really can be somewhere you never imagined, that’s why it’s so important to keep going.

I wonder if she knows how much she changed singing with Full Moon. She and LaShawn. It became the new “cool way” to do vocals. Combos were being done that weren’t done before, new isms were created in real time. Only a hand full of singers can claim this type of impact.

ALL TIME.

Brandy is honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

a winner has lost more times than a loser has even tried

aretha acting down

My creativity comes from God, I am provided with unlimited access to everything for my creativity.

As a creative, make sure you are creating what’s within you, not what you think people will like

having ideas is easy. extracting them from the safety of your mind and transforming them into something real where the unforgiving world awaits is difficult.

Doesn't escape me how natural it seems for black artists to see the world as naturally multi ethnic, but we have to explain away white filmmakers obsessions with homogeneity.