Life's Tenacity: Thriving in the Harshest Climates

Have you ever woken up from a dream carrying a powerful emotional feeling, yet found yourself unable to remember what you actually dreamt about?  The images may have disappeared, the storyline may be impossible to reconstruct, and the people or places in the dream may have become indistinct. Yet the emotion remains. This raises a question: Can the emotional experience of a dream survive in our memory even when the dream itself has largely been forgotten? The answer appears to be yes. Emotional impressions and the recollection of specific events are related, but they do not necessarily follow the same course when we remember an experience. When the feeling outlasts the dream Dream recall is often remarkably fragile. We may remember fragments immediately after waking, only to find that they disappear within minutes. A familiar face becomes unrecognizable, a location loses its significance, and an elaborate sequence of events dissolves into disconnected images. Interestingly, the emot...

  As for me personally, I don't believe in mutual masturbation and making forever excuses. When we look at Africa, I mean, the last time I really observed Africa was over a decade ago. And when I look at it now, we're supposed to believe that the theory of evolution applies universally? Africa has almost made a case for the opposite. It appears to have devolved. I know what I'm talking about. When I watch Africa on television, anywhere, I'll use Nigeria as an example. Sometimes I find myself sinking into my seat because it's almost embarrassing. I don't quite know how to say this without revealing too much personal information, but it just looks backwards. Nigeria in the 1990s, or even the mid-to-late 1980s, when I was a child, seemed twenty times more advanced than what we're seeing today. So I wonder why that is. I'll tell you why. Because we have spent our lifetimes blaming the West, blaming the CIA, the IMF, traitors and all sorts of adversaries. Hea...

The alley floor didn't catch Lazar; it crumpled his suspension. He hit the heavy, rotting canvas of a sanitation drone’s disposal bin, the impact blowing the remaining oxygen from his lungs in a sharp, wet gasp.  The stink stank shank stench of recycled grease and sour ozone filled his throat as he rolled over the rim, tumbling hard onto the wet cobblestones of the lower transit lane. He didn't check for broken ribs. Pain was a secondary diagnostic metric. Above him, the rooftop he had just vacated cut a jagged silhouette against the neon-pulsing smog. Three distinct beams of concentrated ultraviolet light swept the brickwork, scanning the rain for thermal signatures.  The Liquidators were already analyzing the trajectory of his descent. Lazar pulled the stolen solid-state drive from his jacket. The copper casing was cooling now, leaving a raw, rectangular blister across his left palm.  He didn't drop it. That blister was the only evidence that Sector 4’s math was a lie. ...

When a person suddenly goes from a position of relative poverty or financial hardship into a state of immense social power, public attention, or extraordinary wealth, society frequently notice a behavioural divergence.  The character in question often begins to display profound insensitivity toward the very socioeconomic groups from which they or their families emerged.  To the casual observer, this looks like simple hypocrisy.  However, a deeper examination through the dual lenses of federal judicial evidence and advanced neurological science suggest's power alters the biological and cognitive architecture of the human mind. This psychological transformation can be seen in two modern examples: the rise and fall of the international financial fraudster Ramon Olorunwa Abbas (known globally as "Ray Hushpuppi") and the political and corporate trajectory of Donald J. Trump. By evaluating verified legal documents alongside groundbreaking social-psychological and neurological r...