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welcome to the cotkey ride home for wednesday June 9th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird. Why, some people don't have a mind's eye, and others can visualize things in incredible detail. Watermelons on Mars and human-animal hybrid babies born across the world.

Neither of those are true, but if you read two of the biggest newspapers in the U.S.,

you might have been led to believe they are.

And El Salvador has become the first country to officially recognize Bitcoin as currency.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

Early in 2020, there was a discussion that took over Twitter for a couple of days

and was sparked by a post that asked people to explain what they imagined in their heads

when told to picture an apple.

And the original tweet featured a visual scale from one to five of what you may have pictured,

with one being basically a realistic photo of an apple, two being more like a one-dimensional drawing of an apple.

It got more rudimentary as you went along the scale until five, which was no

visualization at all. And it was really messed with people's heads as they thought about how they

think about things. Some people were flexing on their ability to imagine a perfect apple.

Like Neil Gaiman, who responded, quote, I'm a one, although the apple is green, has a beat of

dew on it, and is on a tree, end quote. Okay, Neil, we get it, I'm a one, although the apple is green, has a beat of dew on it, and is on a tree,

end quote. Okay, Neil, we get it, you're a talented writer. But others seem to realize for the

first time that they don't actually picture anything and wondered if people were messing with them

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