{"id":2224,"date":"2010-08-13T12:14:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T16:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2010-08-13T12:14:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T16:14:06","slug":"huge-heads-not-just-good-for-smashing-against-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/13\/huge-heads-not-just-good-for-smashing-against-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge heads not just good for smashing against things&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that scientists have discovered that the size of your skull can be a factor in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/80beats\/2010\/07\/13\/could-an-oversized-noggin-help-stave-off-the-effects-of-alzheimers\/\" target=\"_blank\">staving off the effects of Alzheimers<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0Anyone who has met me in person and felt in person the force of my magnetic personality will understand perfectly when I say this: \u00c2\u00a0I win at the Alzheimer&#8217;s game. \u00c2\u00a0I beat all of you. \u00c2\u00a0There is no winning against me, for my head is made of win.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a little clarification for you; that&#8217;s not my magnetic personality you are feeling, but rather the gravitational pull of my skull actually causing you to lean towards me. \u00c2\u00a0I have a huge head. \u00c2\u00a0Measurably so. \u00c2\u00a0I have never met a head bigger than mine, and it&#8217;s a regular party gag to throw down and have a measure-off with anyone in the room. \u00c2\u00a0I am a skinny dude with an enormous melon, and nobody expects me to beat the huge guys with the muscles, but I do. \u00c2\u00a0When I finally lose the battle with hair loss it will probably be a lot more obvious, but for now I can safely say that I will out last any of you in the Alzheimer&#8217;s department, and nobody knows it until the tape measures come out.<\/p>\n<p>The most ironic thing of all is I have probably the worst memory (for some things). \u00c2\u00a0Just ask my wife Lorraine or especially my sister, um, Betty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that scientists have discovered that the size of your skull can be a factor in staving off the effects of Alzheimers. \u00c2\u00a0Anyone who has met me in person and felt in person the force of my magnetic personality &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/13\/huge-heads-not-just-good-for-smashing-against-things\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[230],"tags":[264,263],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scientifica","tag-huge-head","tag-noggin-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-zS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2225,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions\/2225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}