CDS Journal

" Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth. The cure is a peanut allergy which transforms the phobia into a rational fear. " - David Mitchell The Unbelievable Truth, S08E02 https://www.unitedwecare.com/arachibutyrophobia/ _______ " The most popular detective TV show in Germany is a buddy cop drama where both of them follow the rules, the crime is solved in the first five minutes and the rest of the episode is taken up with the correct filing and filling out of the paperwork. " - John Finnamore The Unbelievable Truth, 20E01 _______ Source: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1y71fYF4kvvHmlxv4tbbTgf9RYcR6KVs4 _______

Here is how my mind works. While relaxing I decided to take a look at the world table tennis event that's on right now. I browsed through some video of one of the days and found myself focused on trying to understand the event itself because of having worked as a TTennis event organizer. Because I was in this mindset I found I was noticing inconsistencies. One of them was the name of a Swedish player. I got focused on it because I wasn't familiar with all the names and wanted to be clear who was who. Because I'm not watching it live I can deviate and research things. I was confused by the Swedish player's name because his shirt didn't match the score display. LIVE! | T3 | Day 5 | GS | ITTF World Team Table Tennis Championships Finals London 2026 | Session 1 - YouTube I found him on Wikipedia and was amused to see this: "In 2018, Mattias adopted his wife's surname, Falck, upon marriage. He resumed using his bir...

When Empathy Goes Both Ways Rethinking Autism and Social Difficulty Through the “Double Empathy Problem” For much of the past century, autism has been framed as a condition defined by social deficits - particularly a reduced ability to understand other people. This view shaped everything from clinical diagnosis to public perception. But a growing body of research is challenging that assumption. Instead of a one-sided deficit, scientists are now describing social difficulty in autism as a two-way problem of mutual misunderstanding . This idea is known as the double empathy problem , and it is reshaping how researchers - and increasingly clinicians - understand human connection. A Shift in Perspective The traditional model of autism suggested that autistic individuals struggle with empathy: reading emotions, interpreting social cues, and responding appropriately. The double empathy framework turns that idea on its head. It proposes that when two people have different ways of processing t...

"There have been studies that suggest that eating ground up beard hair can halt dementia in mice. Bad news for mice, as surely the last thing you want when you're being used in a drug experiment and will eventually be thrown into a bin... is clarity." - Frankie Boyle, The Unbelievable Truth, Season 22 Episode 3