Moment of Truth

I, like a lot of people, find a wide variety of things funny. From puns to stupid pick-up lines to good, quality comedy, a lot of things will make me laugh (or at the very least smile). It's fairly obvious why stupid puns and pick-up lines are funny: they're so bad that they're good. If you search for "good puns" and read them off to me, I'll definitely start cracking up. But why do I -- and most other people -- find this funny? Well, although the play-on-words can be a bit cringe sometimes, a lot of times it's actually pretty innovative. One of my favorite examples of this is the former YouTuber Ryan Higa a.k.a. nigahiga. Back in the day, he was probably the most popular YouTuber out there, and for good reason. His videos (which I still sometimes rewatch today) were super creative. Not only that, but you can't watch one of his videos without hearing a good pun or two. His videos are a combination of creative takes on random ideas, united by a single j...

Time is the most valuable resource on the planet, but what exactly is it? Some think that time is an infinite line, with events occurring in a specific order that can't be altered. Others classify it as another dimension in and of itself. But I think that time is more like a line with occasional alterations of certain events in the past. Here's what I mean by that. Every time you recall a specific memory, it is comparable to going to the past and experiencing that memory. And the more you recall that memory, the more you "visit" it in the past. The more you revisit that memory, the more your perception of it changes. Eventually, your memory itself can be warped.  In my choice-reading novel  Educated by Tara Westover, we find Tara to be an unreliable narrator because she isn't sure which of her memories are real and which are fabricated. For example, she says, "My strongest memory is not a memory. It's something I imagined, then came to remember as if it h...