Where’s PETA when you need them?
I started reading this article about how “desire and dread” are linked, using the example of rock climbing.
It’s not much of an article, but this part certainly drew my attention [my emphasis]:
In the early 2000s, Berridge designed an experiment to study the neuroscience of wanting, by injecting a dopamine-like drug (a neurotransmitter that plays a large role in reward-motivated behavior) into the nucleus accumbens of lab rats. When his doctoral student, Sheila Reynolds, placed microinjections in the front of the nucleus accumbens, the rats, as expected, demonstrated strong “wanting” behavior when presented with sugar.
When Reynolds placed the microinjections in the back of the nucleus accumbens, however, the reaction was quite different. Not only did the rats not show any interest in the sugar, they became frantic. They threw sawdust in the cage (anti-predator behavior) and, when Reynolds tried to pick them up, they would try to jump out of her hand or even bite her…
The effect was modulated by environment, with unfamiliar environments more likely to produce fear after the injections. When the rats were moved to a lab with harsh fluorescent lighting and played Iggy Pop songs for an hour, nearly all of their responses to microinjections produced fear, regardless of where in the nucleus accumbens the injections were made. In a quiet, dark space, on the other hand, nearly all of the microinjections produced wanting behavior regardless of injection location.
Fluorescent lighting and Iggy Pop for an hour? No wonder!
At least it wasn’t Yoko Ono.
Iggy pop is not bad compared to
WILLIAM HUNG
FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS
MRS. MILLER
THE PORTSMOUTH SINFONIA
WING (dont you love her “Wing Sings AC/DC”?)
Now if they have done freebird (backwards), that would have truly been cruelty to animals..
best i can offer is Freebird on shakuhachi flute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h38Y2BehipI
and if you can snatch this pebble from my hand…..
PS – I am a member of that other peta People Eating Tasty Animals..
so be sure you get the right one to help
PSS the real peta hates my friend and i for stopping them from doing a fashion runway protest…
PSSS why do they think its fine to attack and old woman and ruin her fur coat but never sneak up behind a hells angel and put paint on their colors?
such eternal questions
“PSSS why do they think its fine to attack and old woman and ruin her fur coat but never sneak up behind a hells angel and put paint on their colors?” – Artfldgr
LOL – you know the answer of course. It’s the same one a provocateur-journalist gave to Hugh Hewitt many years ago, about why he spent many column-inches (screen-pixels? anyone know the equivalence formula?) attacking Mormons for some harmless peculiarity-du-jour, but never made a peep about Muslim jihadi attrocities (lightly paraphrased but accurate):
“Well, Hugh, the Mormons bring me cookies.”
Yoko Ono’s screeching should be put on the WMD list.
Actually the live in Toronto version of Don’t Worry Kyoko (Mummy’s Only Looking For Her Hand in the Snow) by the Plastic Ono Band is one of those songs that grows on you after repeated listening.
Artfl, blast you, I don’t begin to have the time to follow all the delicious links from all the sidebars your UT lures me into!
I must say I like the timbre of the instrument. Also the bass duet somewhat down on the sidebar.
I’m not 100% sure whether the music itself has quarter-tones and other pitches not generally found in Western-diatonic music, or whether they’re artifacts of the instrument itself.
Thanks!
Music selection at my local Safeway just makes me want to get out of there as quickly as possible.
And my musical tastes are pretty eclectic…takes some work to choose things that I can’t stand.
David, you’re a stronger man than vis-á-vis eclectical musical tastes. (For some value of “musical,” she sniffed). But I agree with you squared, with respect to any grocery-store OR drugstore so-called “music” I ever heard (well, except a few times when I got lucky and they were playing some Dionne Warwick number — usually “San Jose” or “Déja Vu. But I feel it’s important you should know that my all-time favorite of hers is “In Your Eyes,” and only the performance that I have on my particular record).
I can’t remember if I said so, but that was an excellent posting you put up at Chicago Boyz about the Chinese (and Russian) taking-over of our various countries, enabled in part by failures of our business to tell them to pound sand when they want to extort some illegitimate (by our standards, and I don’t mean by that “illegal”) action — or restraint — from them. “Soft power.” Thanks for posting it.
They’re preoccupied with aborting and sequestering throwaway animals. To their credit, they don’t target human beings. A legacy of exclusion, albeit selective. Join the revolution already in progress.
What’s the old joke? “John Lennon gets shot six times, but Yoko Ono, standing right beside, doesn’t get shot at all. Explain that to me, Lord!”
Berridge is a “neuroscientist”. When you see that credential, recoil in fear, because it is a lie, an intentional gross misrepresentation.
All “neuroscientists” are psychologists clad in black robes. Psychologists.
So now re-read the claims about the rat experiments. They are meaningless and useless, at least as far as humans are concerned. Maybe good for another grant award, but,,,Ugh.
At least it wasn’t Yoko Ono.
Or, even worse, Starshi*.
You know, that band that went from Go Ask Alice to Sarah.
You remember Sarah, right? Here, let me remind you of the lyrics:
Sarah… Sarah… Sarah… Sarah… Sarah… Sarah…
Sarah… Sarah… Sarah… Sarah…
Sarah… Sarah… Sarah… Sarah… Sarah… Sarah…
Sarah… . Sarah… Sarah… Sarah… Sarah…
Sarah… Sarah… Sarah… Sarah… Sarah… Sarah…
Sarah… Sarah… Sarah… Sarah…
Sarah… Sarah… Sarah… Sarah… Sarah… Sarah…
Sarah… Sarah… Sarah… Sarah… Sarah… Sarah…
Sarah… Sarah… Sarah… Sarah…
Sarah… Sarah… Sarah… Sarah… Sarah… Sarah…
Sarah… Sarah… Sarah… Sarah… Sarah…
Sarah… Sarah… Sarah… Sarah…
Sarah… Sarah… Sarah… Sarah… Sarah… Sarah…
Ha Ha, only kidding.
Just the BOLD italic parts are the actual song lyrics.
Yes. Bold. Actual.