Sciences Explains Me to You

  • Why I’m absent-minded: Alcohol affects the developing teenage brain, impairing performance on “tests of verbal and nonverbal memory, attention focusing and exercising spatial skills like those required to read a map or assemble a precut bookcase.” These consequences persist in the long term.
  • Why I’m so good at that trivia game at Dave & Buster’s: I’ve played a lot of video games. (Still, there’s a paradox here—why do I get my pistachios handed to me every time I play Dr. Mario with Aubrey, Ryan, & Sarah?)
  • Why you want me moving your stuff: I was raised in a high-gravity environment, like these superchickens.
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