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brianquinn:

ETHAN LIPTON & HIS ORCHESTRA ::: CD Fundraiser!

An incredible, hilarious band helmed by the brilliant writer/vocalist, Ethan Lipton.  I’m honored to call these guys my friends, and hope you will be able to hear them perform live some day.

If you have heard them, then you will surely click HERE to donate a few sheckles to help micro-produce their upcoming album via the reputable Kickstarter site.  (Only 3 days left to do your part!)

i love these guys, anyone who can write a chorus in which one of the lines is “her hair smelled like steak,” deserves more than a few sheckles :)

Dorky basic science addiction medicine quip of the day, by Dr. George Koob

GPFNPOYW

gratuitous pseudo film noir picture of yourself wednesday

(photo courtesy of Bo Lee)

maxwellmichwa:

SV/JD

Slum Village (produced by J Dilla), “Fall-N-Love,” from Fantastic Vol. II

i know i’ve been posting a lot of music lately, but how could i not reblog this track?!?!

If you could ask Al Gore one question about the climate crisis, what would it be (?)

Timber Timbre, “Demon Host,” from Timber Timbre

the video is a smidge creepy, but i have listened to this song at least 10 times today.

f.y.i. he’s playing at Joe’s Pub on 11/20!

Tor/Sufjan Stevens (ft. Grand Puba), “The Tallest Man/I Like It,” from Illinoize

therobhayes:

Christopher Walken performing a spoken word rendition of Lady Gaga’s Poker Face.

this is next. level.

Excerpted slides from: Inside Our Brain:Obesity and Dopamine Deficiency

- dopamine is important in: movement, motivation, reward and well-being

- substance users & the obese have low dopamine brain activity which indicates an under-stimulated reward system —> perpetuating pathological behavior, i.e. binge eating & drug use because they need to compensate for a decreased reward circuit activation.

Dopamine article in NYTimes

Dopamine simply makes a relevant object almost impossible to ignore… Recreational drugs like cocaine tend to block that transporter, allowing dopamine to linger in the neuronal vestibule and keep punching its signal along.

So excited that Nora Volkow is the keynote speaker for Thursday’s Advances in Addiction Research and Practice seminar.

Tomorrow night at the American Museum of Natural History.

An extra block of tickets just opened up! Get ‘em while they’re hot!