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...talk about how a lot of the time, our minds create mental maps that are actually really inaccurate. Did you find a reason for that? We tend to reduce things to the simplest order that we can. So where there are curves, we straighten them. Where there are weird angles, we make them right angles. And the reason why we're doing that is because it reduces memory load. It's much easier for us to remember something that's got a very simple geometry than something that doesn't. So we align where we shouldn't. We straighten where...
...have to straighten them up sometimes, but I love them," she said...
...could be embracing the habit because it brings on oblivion. Half the time she doesn't know the owner of the car or couch where she's been sleeping off her latest stupor. It might be her recovering-alcoholic friend Mitch (Saul Rubinek), who keeps trying to straighten her out. Or it might be her neighbor Elena (Kate del Castillo), who has hatched a goofy plan to retrieve her estranged son Tom (Aidan Gould) - if only Julia will, sort of, kidnap...
...representatives in Washington had better straighten up. With this kind of leadership, who needs Congress? Joe Myers, Mesa, Arizona...
...Inside-the-beltway representatives had better straighten up. With this kind of leadership, who needs Congress? Joe Myers, MESA, ARIZ...