Mon. 02/28 - Pres. Zelensky's Uncanny Comedy Career & the Perils of Idol-worship
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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
4.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:31.1 | Welcome to the Kotke Ride Home for Monday, 28th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. |
| 0:42.1 | That thing that you're looking at right now, it's already 15 seconds in the past. |
| 0:48.0 | Plus, new findings from Apple and Harvard's giant period tracking study. |
| 0:53.2 | And before emerging as a wartime president, Volodymy |
| 0:56.8 | Zelensky had a prolific career as a comedian, a rundown of some of the wildest |
| 1:02.4 | clips that have been resurfacing. Here are some of the cool things from the news today. |
| 1:09.6 | A running joke throughout the pandemic has been that time doesn't exist anymore. |
| 1:14.3 | Because for so many of us with so many typical parts of our lives upended and holidays and seasons passing in different ways or without much acknowledgement at all, |
| 1:23.6 | it's been tough to keep a steady hold on time. |
| 1:27.1 | It's been slipping through our fingers, not in |
| 1:29.3 | that it's flying by, but in that the very concept of time feels watered down and mixed up in our heads. |
| 1:37.0 | Well, to make time even more of a mind-bending concept, a new study indicates that our brains |
| 1:43.1 | are living 15 seconds in the past. |
| 1:46.9 | Psychology professors Moro Manasi and David Whitney set out to understand the illusion of stability |
| 1:52.2 | in our vision. Quoting the two of them in inverse, the brain automatically smooths our visual |
| 1:58.4 | input over time. Instead of analyzing every single visual |
| 2:02.1 | snapshot, we perceive in a given moment an average of what we saw in the past 15 seconds. So by |
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