Material from everyday chit chat, culled from the 'Public status updates' side bar

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I find it wonderful that members can freely delete posts from the side bar but then I find it disconcerting when I find some useful stuff carefully curated but suddenly, deleted by the OP. Maybe it is my unstable mental state of mind that want to cling on to stuff that should by right, be cast aside and best left forgotten. 

 

May I present one of my favourite books :

Tuesday with Morrie

 

 

I finally got to see what Professor Morrie looked like. 

https://www.mitchalbom.com/books/tuesdays-inspiration/...Truly a giant among men

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I knew Morrie Schwartz before he ever got sick. He was my favorite professor in college, my mentor, my friend. In my 4 years at Brandeis back in the ’70s, I spent countless hours in his classroom, or hanging around his office.

 

“What are you going to do with yourself?” he would ask me.

“Be a musician,” I would answer.

“Fine. Good. But whatever you do, be as human as you can. Never lose your humanity. Don’t be like so many of your fellow students now. All they want to do is make money.”

 

 

Edited September 26 by daydream

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J. Douglas Edwards, is acclaimed as the greatest ever sales trainer. In the 1960's to the 1980's he was the Number 1 Sales Skills and Persuasion Techniques Keynote Speaker in the USA and Canada.

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Sister Imagine Daydreams. I only saw the word " Bar". So this is my contribution to the thread. 

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Kurt Nilsen & Willie Nelson 'Lost Highway'

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Edited October 15 by daydream

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https://www.sciencealert.com/a-neuroscientist-explains-how-your-brain-actually-thinks

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Your brain has somewhere between 80 billion and 100 billion neurons. Neurons tend to group together to form neural tracts, which would be like the streets and highways in the city analogy. When you have a thought, neurons in your brain fire up and create electrical impulses.

These impulses tend to travel along similar pathways and release tiny chemicals called neurotransmitters along the way.

These neurotransmitters are like the construction crew that builds the roads, making it easier for the messages to be delivered. You can imagine it as a dirt road, but as more traffic – that is, neuron signals – travel the dirt road, the road gets upgraded to a paved street. If the traffic continues, it gets upgraded to a highway.

As you learn new things and experience the world around you, these connections grow stronger.

 

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Let's review: fill in the blank

1. The pituitary gland is the size of a .......

2. Which part of the brain is the largest?

3. The brain is part of .......system?

4. True or false. The cerebellum controls balance

 

Edited November 11 by daydream