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Blackvegetable » Today, 8:59 am » wrote: ↑

Today, 8:59 am

A few...

When people stop reading good fiction, we'll all become idiots...

My neurologist friend argues that it is a primary indicator of "cerebral fitness"....he should know, "brain mapping" is his business.

(Apparently, in baseball terms, writing non-fiction is like the minor leagues in terms of skill and difficulty while fiction is the major leagues, and literary fiction is like the World Series.)

https://markmanson.net/read-fiction

He was a Classics major, to honor his father and heritage...and refused to declare pre-med, though he satisfied all requirements....

33 out of 33 med schools declined his application. So he took a year off and reapplied..

Good thing for Neurology....here he is, returning to his alma mater where he held an endowed chair....

These 90 minutes will make you much smarter.....and consider that he is the one who insisted we had to watch the Sparx Brothers movie...

https://youtu.be/RMTAM9O3WwA?is=3tMKbXird0zzIg6m