I read an article about a study int deja vu. It basically said it was a memory short circuit. Every day you brain loads everything that happened into short term memory. At some point during the day, usually while you sleep, your brain processes all these memories and decides what needs to go to long term or permanent memory, everything else is tossed to the side. So, whenever you do something your brain scans your long term memory to see if you have done this before. If you have it can provide useful details. If not it loads it into short term memory and the process starts all over.

The important thing is whenever you do something your brain scans long term memory to see if you have done this before. Deja vu can happen if your brain hiccups and for some reason starts loading whatever you are doing at the time into long term memory. So your brain is scanning long term memory as you are writing to long term memory. It makes what you are doing at that exact moment feel like a memory even though it isn’t. It’s also why you get that weird feeling because your brain knows something is not right and it’s trying to figure out what it is.

As I understand it, and I’m sure I’m wrong, some networks would require so many episodes or seasons before a show could be released to syndication. This kind of prevented the production company of double dipping or diluting the audience. If a show went into syndication after one season there would be people watching the new episodes on one channel and another watching reruns on another channel so dividing the audience and the important advertising dollars.

As an example, Star Trek the next generation was produced as a syndicated show. A production company paid for the whole show and sold the episodes to a network. I want to say it aired on CBS but it might have been Fox, but the reruns started on what would be considered the UHF channels, for a lack of a better term, after the first season. The production company did this by selling the episodes below cost knowing the would make it up on syndication. Towards the end of its run it cost over a million an episode which was outrageous at the time. It was selling the episodes for about $800,000 to the network and the $400,000 per episode in syndication making more money overall.

Star Trek:Enterprise was produced by Paramount and aired exclusively on UPN, a network channel owned by Paramount, but was co-produced by another production company. Their contract required 4 seasons before syndication and Star Trek shows made a ton of money in syndication. The business model for this show pretty much counted on hitting syndication. The UPN canceled the show at the end of the 2nd season or midway through the 3rd season. The production company lowered the cost per episode, essentially paying UPN to air the show so they could stay on for a 4th season to hit syndication

Not quite applicable but in Florida they have “hard time”. In most cases when you get prison time you only have to do 75% of your sentence if you have good behavior, called gain time. Right now it’s about 10 days for every 30 you serve. however they can sentence you in a way where you have to do every day of your sentence. In most cases like this they give a sentence of so many years which includes some hard time, like 5 years with two years minimum. This way you don’t qualify for any gain time until you serve 2 years. That means you loose 240 days of gain time, which is a lot on a 5 year sentence.

Gorillas laugh, they probably didn’t learn that from humans. However some facial expressions are learned. In India the way they move their heads when talking is almost a language in itself. These head movements can vary region to region.