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@AbirDe-m7q
April 19, 2026 at 11:02 am
FIRST
@gavenchyjames6444
April 19, 2026 at 11:04 am
What!!? Rats!!
@asar2252
April 19, 2026 at 11:19 am
When a rat drives better than you.
@StealthTheUnknown
April 20, 2026 at 1:56 pm
Just put the phone down and occasionally study whenever you notice something on the road you’re not sure of. Simple hack to beat 90% of motorists
@asar2252
April 20, 2026 at 2:03 pm
@StealthTheUnknown yeah, you don’t have to worry about me. I can ride motorcycles (and often do)
It’s just that cars are not THAT mainstream for personal use in our country.
I’ll learn for sure when I own one.
@bigtimbo4236
April 19, 2026 at 11:26 am
Why spend money to find out if wild rats swim better than lab rats? I can’t think of any way this knowledge could benefit humans or not.
@happykillmore349
April 19, 2026 at 11:34 am
We can explain it to you, but we can’t understand it for you, Skeeter.
@bigtimbo4236
April 19, 2026 at 11:55 am
@happykillmore349 OK, well thanks for absolutely nothing!
@thalisrangel
April 19, 2026 at 11:57 am
@happykillmore349nós vivemos na era da informação mas alguns não conseguem absorver
@imarockstarification
April 19, 2026 at 12:24 pm
As she said, showing that their survival rates were better when they could reasonably hope to be saved.
@technolus5742
April 19, 2026 at 1:08 pm
The amount of times we got unexpected benefits from research without obvious application…..
Yet people still can’t see it 🤦♂️
@NewtonMD
April 19, 2026 at 11:34 am
And then the rat drives better than you
@JohnWick-zn7rf
April 19, 2026 at 12:05 pm
and then rats proceed to genocide people
@erkinalp
April 21, 2026 at 4:09 pm
*humans
@RealFatherHowie
April 19, 2026 at 12:10 pm
Do you think in medieval times they put rats in armor and encouraged them to slaughter each other with weapons in a gladiator pit as study?
Romanratiators.
@user-ve9hq8qu7u
April 19, 2026 at 12:41 pm
Holding other people accountable when they are incapable of holding themselves accountable is something more people should do.
@Garlicnaan08
April 19, 2026 at 1:55 pm
Hi
@XAirForcedotcom
April 19, 2026 at 2:29 pm
I don’t care that you taught them to drive but who taught them to run nations😂
@vikaskhanna8559
April 19, 2026 at 2:37 pm
In our daily life, we breathe, but we forget that we’re breathing. The foundation of all mindfulness practice is to bring our attention to our in-breath and out-breath. This is called mindfulness of breathing, or conscious breathing. It’s very simple, but the effect can be very great. In our daily life, although our body is in one place, our mind is often in another. Paying attention to our in-breath and out-breath brings our mind back to our body. And suddenly we are there, fully present in the here and the now.
Conscious breathing is like drinking a glass of cool water. As we breathe in, we really feel the air fi lling our lungs. We don’t need to control our breath. We feel the breath as it actually is. It may be long or short, deep or shallow. In the light of our awareness it will naturally become slower and deeper. Conscious breathing is the key to uniting body and mind and bringing the energy of mindfulness into each moment of our life.
Regardless of our internal weather—our thoughts, emotions, and perceptions—our breathing is always with us like a faithful friend.
Whenever we feel carried away, sunk in a deep emotion, or caught in thoughts about the past or the future, we can return to our breath-ing to collect and anchor our mind.
@jurjenbos228
April 20, 2026 at 2:03 am
Interesting, but it has nothing to do with the video. What are you trying to achieve?
@tobiashauk4368
April 19, 2026 at 4:41 pm
There is a saying in Germany: Vorfreude ist die schönste Freude. Anticipating joy is the best joy. 🙂
@ETAjessicattt
April 19, 2026 at 11:57 pm
I love this, thank you for sharing. It’s a beautiful thing, helps you enjoy the journey more and we all should. Sometimes the time before an event is so much better than the actual event. I learned this one day on a small road trip to a rave with my friend. The rave sucked but was well worth the memories I have because of it.
@justworship0570
April 21, 2026 at 2:41 am
❤
@thunderdragon517
April 19, 2026 at 5:27 pm
I think giving them a cookie would be easier. Wait, that’s for a mouse
@JKwak01
April 19, 2026 at 6:23 pm
Surely Kelly has an academic title of some kind, right? Dr.? Professor? PsyD?
Is TED unable to accredit individuals properly? Or is this lack of acknowledgement something spurned by the notion of being “neutral” and no longer attaching formal labels on specific persons?
For those who are thinking of searching and looking up Kelly’s professional information, she has a Ph.D in Bio-psychology. You can effectively call her “Dr. Kelly Lambert.”
@erkinalp
April 21, 2026 at 4:13 pm
her title is not relevant for this talk
@chasmenear7130
April 19, 2026 at 8:57 pm
Regarding your title here…We did. His name is Trump.🤪
@wallaroo1295
April 19, 2026 at 11:30 pm
I’m a Ratty type, and I just *ADORE* this experiment! Thank you Ma’am!
@bloodlettingbeast9599
April 19, 2026 at 11:43 pm
Micah do not deserve this 😡
@MichaelManOfPrayer
April 20, 2026 at 12:09 am
This was so awesome! I agree joy and hope and positive expectation are important.
@scottys-world
April 20, 2026 at 1:10 am
The level of enlightening can cause an overwhelming theorem based understanding of many different complexities within our own mind processing of the question of knowledge. Yet what do we really know?
@williamheath1757
April 20, 2026 at 9:09 am
Hope that is seen is not hope, for why do we hope for what we see? But if we hope for what we do not see, then we with patience wait for it. The Book of Romans
@ants070
April 20, 2026 at 10:22 am
Why are the wheels on the rat mobile like that?
@johnpersinger4358
April 20, 2026 at 11:40 am
a literal rat race. it must be so.
@johnpersinger4358
April 20, 2026 at 11:42 am
a study on whether an artificial economy is created amongst the rats based on the color of the froot loop. 🧐
@turingCompleteJeff
April 20, 2026 at 5:26 pm
as a teacher it is clear to me that dopamine is a signal that something novel is occurring – not a pleasure chemical
BF Skinner also researched this topic in a very similar way with pigeons where he concluded that a pigeon who is unable to form a usable pattern for novelty is more likely to become addicted to the anticipation and the behavior that they believe may trigger a predictable response
one might conclude that depression and anxiety result from interacting with a world where any amount of effort changes no outcomes for yourself or the world around you
consequently, joy and positivity can be found when we connect or correct models of the world to real consequences and complete our dopamine cycle by observing the outcome of a predictable pattern in the outside environment
@justworship0570
April 21, 2026 at 2:41 am
Greetings from Dagestan ❤
@jasminejeanine2239
April 21, 2026 at 1:01 pm
That’s interesting. I find in human that anticipation is bad. What goes up must come down. People generally crash once after they get whatever they were anticipating. It’s a drug and a stressor all wrapped into one. If you actually want to improve severe depression like me, the trick is to avoid anticipating anything. Then you live solely in the moment. Peace is worth far more than happiness, as happiness can only ever by definition be temporary. Brains just cannot maintain such emotions for long.