Dopamine doesn’t manage pleasure so much as it manages how interesting stuff appears to our brains. I came across an ask.metafilter.com question about how to manage anger. A lot of people indicated that exercise (one person mentioned sex specifically) was a good way to work off the excess energy, but I wondered if the diminutive affect it has on anger is due more to the release of dopamine from the exercise which would helps our brains focus and think clearly and thus deal with the source of the anger more rationally. What do you think?
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I have been writing on the web since 2000. I am a christian , a photographer, an occasional poet, a recovering dreamer, an occasional philosopher, a software developer, an autodidact, and I resemble the INFP personality type.
While surfing the net today I ran across an article on Christianity Today about Bono and his involvement in Africa and his call for the Church to do more in terms of social giving. In general I agree with Bono, we as Christians should do more to minister to the fatherless and widows as it says in James 1:27. I can’t say that I agree with the way Bono has exemplified Christian life though. I think perhaps he stopped reading after the first half of James 1:27 and skipped over the part about keeping ourselves unspotted from the world. ;)That…
Remember during the election when some guy posted a study that said abortion rates had gone up under the Bush administration? Well, it isn’t true. According to a factcheck.org article, abortion rates have continued to drop under the Bush Administration, though at a smaller rate than in previous years.
I think maybe the guy she was trying to pick up dumped her.
Kinda looks like she’s making a pass at you, doesn’t it?
I never really thought about it till I saw them in Africa, but Hippopotamuses are ugly. No. Really.
What’s to say. You wouldn’t think something tha gangly would be so cool. *grin*
The country in the game park was much more like the kind of Africa you see in the movies. I liked the savannah more than the scattered brush you find in the areas around Soroti Town.
We saw a lot of Giraffes on the game drive, though we saw no Elephants until the boat ride. They’re such elegant creatures when they run, they’re so tall.
I’m late on this story, but finding myself interested I’ve taken it upon myself to collate some pertinent links. Bono is Born Again. Who Knew? He gives a fantastic view of grace and karma. Also, another similiar interview can be found on belief.net. And finally, a response to Bono by Boundless in regards to remarks he made in 2002 (see, I told you I was late :). Tod talks about the issue what kind of Church Bono would want to attend in his post "Bono, Neo! Want a Place to Belong?"
It’s not the sharpest photo, nor even the best photo possible of such animals, but it was all I was able to capture. I thought it important to give you one photo of that type of animal. There was a wide variety of breeds in the park. Their much more impressive in person. :)
As I was frantically taking pictures, one of the cubs looked at me. It makes a better photo than the previous, don’t you think?
Posted on Chromasia.com in regards to his Company Fierce portrait.“I think what I liked immediately with this photo is the color of her skin. Its accentuated by the rest of otherwise monocromatic elements in the photo. Also, the almost blownout highlights of her dress give her a pure quality. I’ve never been good with producing those kind of highlights or making use of them in my prints. But I always find them enjoyable when I see them in others.”
Abraham had five cubs to add to his pride. I caught them crossing the road. You only see three in this photo, I apologize for not getting all of them.
In case you’re missing it, Jason Kottke is currently posting links to really old internet events and pages. He’s treating them like new links and throwing them into his remaindered links with the new ones. Why? I have no idea.
This is another of Abraham’s wives. Regal, no?
This Lioness is one of Abraham’s four wives. The photo reminds me of the movie, Death in the Long Grass. :) I was sitting on top of the Guimon’s SUV and was no more than 40 yards from her.
Abraham is a Lion with a reputation in the Murchison Falls game park. A few days before we drove through, Abraham had jumped over an SUV.
This is a black and white version of this photo. I’m torn between which version I like best.
James Doohan passed away todayI always liked Scotty.