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Have you ever turned down the radio while you were driving to see better?
While seeing and hearing are two very different senses, in that kind of situation, your brain is working to process the audio and visual stimuli at the same time..
“It’s cognitive processing that’s happening. Even if it’s in the background of your awareness, that makes it a little bit more challenging to do what the task at hand is,” said Heath Jones, a research neuroscientist for the Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory. “That overloads you to some degree and it depends on what those signals are.

Pyrrhus of Epirus was a beloved king, benevolent leader, and one of the most successful generals of the ancient world. He was so successful that Hannibal of Carthage, who earned a name for himself by kicking around the Romans for a while, called him the second greatest military commander after Alexander the Great. But no one would know any of that because his name is really remembered for that one thing: his big wins against the Romans at the Battle of Heraclea in 280 BC and Asculum in 279 BC, victories that nearly ended his army.

The neocons want to send your children to fight no matter what

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The neocons want war with Iran, and they will do anything to get it — say anything, do anything, lie, steal cheat…whatever they need to do.
If we value our republic, we must stop this outcome in the Middle East.
America cannot afford another major war, and yes, this will be a major war, touching off a global conflagration.
People you are close to will die.

Michael Furay, RealClearDefense
The senior – and far and away most influential officer in the Navy – is the Chief of Naval Operations