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Growing up in Colorado, young Pam Grier endures racism and trauma, but finds solace in horses and the beautiful countryside. As a teen, she visits Los Angeles for the first time, and gets caught in the middle of the historic Watts Rebellion. But after winning a beauty pageant, she meets a Hollywood agent who encourages her to give L.A. a second chance.

There's an aspect of video games that often goes unnoticed. When you think of gaming, you probably think of it solely as entertainment or an activity you use to wind down at the end of the day.

 When you were growing up, you may have even heard the common saying, "If you keep playing those games they'll rot your brain!" But interestingly enough, the complete opposite of that adage may actually be closer to the truth - that playing video games can make you smarter.

In this video, we'll dive into some of the most powerful ways that video games can improve your intelligence and positively affect the brain, the theories behind how it works, and two other potent methods of boosting your brainpower to use in combination with gaming.

Have you ever wondered why you get your best ideas in the shower? You might think that it’s simply because you’re able to relax a bit, so your brain has a chance to really concentrate. But it turns out that it’s more complicated than that, and the answer to why your best ideas come to you in this state isn’t because a part of your brain is switched on, but because a very important part of your brain… is switched off.   There is a scientific field called 'flow states' pioneered by Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and recently popularized by best selling author 'Steven Kotler' that provides insights to the explanation for why your best ideas start to pop up while you relax in the shower among other activities in your daily life.    During a state of flow, like the mild flow state while you're in the shower, your brain can unleash your most brilliant ideas, but have you ever thought to ask yourself what makes this happen? And even more importantly, if you can take advantage of it outside of your shower thoughts?   In psychology, these states of mind have been coined “Flow States.” And their research has been spearheaded by Hungarian-American psychologist Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who is one of the leading researchers in modern positive psychology. Csikszentmihalyi determined nine characteristics for experiencing flow states. Recently flow states were popularized in a conversation between Joe Rogan and Steven Kotler.   -----  Thanks for stopping by the Common Knowledge Channel. We're here to take the every day questions and facts that we come to realize we may have not have actually thought deeply through before, and combine new learning something new every day with my mediocre video editing skills, for your viewing entertainment.   My editing skills may improve over time, but I promise, my dry jokes wont.

When is the last time you’ve walked into a restaurant and saw an entire table of friends on their phone, each content to be in their own world - nearly unaware of the reality around them?   

With the meteoric rise in popularity for documentaries like The Social Dilemma, it safe to say that questioning the effect that social media addiction has on our society a growing sentiment and realization within today’s culture. With many people decided to take a social media detox, or quit social media all together.

But what is the path forward in the new age of social media, and the side effects of the rapid evolution of the technology and the algorithms that control how we interact with the platform? Is it as simple as turning off big tech, or perhaps to quit social media? Or is there a way we can start to take control our use to find a healthy balance for social media and mental health?

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Steve Crossman and guests chew the fat after the dust has settled on England’s quarter-final defeat to France. He’s joined by The Athletic’s Adam Crafton and former England internationals Rob Green and Leon Osman. We also hear from Gareth Southgate. Plus, the panel look ahead to the semi-finals with Morocco’s Adel Taarabt. 

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Tom Hiddleston's Loki has faced off against Thor and the other Avengers. And now in the new series Loki on Disney+, he gets roped into working with the MCU's time cops, the Time Variance Authority. Alongside TVA agent Mobius, played by Owen Wilson, Loki hunts down another Loki variant (played by Sophia di Martino) seeking to overthrow the TVA. Along the way, it's developing into something the superhero genre usually doesn't have time for — an honest-to-the-gods character study.

In 2001, The Fast and the Furious debuted as a scruffy car-culture movie, and it was a hit. it was followed by two sequels that didn't quite satisfy, so they regrouped. Since then, it's become the blockbuster machine: some love, some hate, some love to hate, and some hate to love. When you do this much business for this many years, it's hard not to have an impact.

What better way to kick off a summer of movies than with F9, the ninth installment of the main Fast & Furious franchise. Directed by Justin Lin, and starring Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, and the rest of the beloved Fast family, the movie's got cars, it's got bad guys, and it's even got John Cena. And in case you're wondering whether there's anywhere to boldly go where no one has gone before, there sure is.

Luca, the latest movie from Disney and Pixar, whisks us across the globe and into a fictional coastal Italian town in the 1950s. There, the titular young hero and his new friend Alberto get into adventures and dream of buying their very own Vespa.

In the new Apple TV+ series Physical, Rose Byrne plays a woman whose early '80s journey from miserable wife to powerhouse businesswoman goes directly through the fitness industry. Created by Annie Weisman, who used to write for Desperate Housewives, the show centers around Sheila Rubin, who despite being very beautiful, has a profoundly miserable relationship with her body, from bulimic behavior to an unrelentingly abusive interior monologue.