(This piece was published in the Brighton Argus today – 30th October 2023) This week marks the second week of Parliament opening after all of the Party conferences have finished. There was a noticeable reduction in the amount of published information available about planned Government activity for the week ahead and some significant and unusual patterns of voting behaviour by the MP’s focussed…

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The “Compass of Pleasure” | From Meditation to Masturbation

a woman standing and about to drink a juice

Okay. So, let’s get started.

You and your friend go to a bar. Both of you order beers. Your friend hits high on his second beer. And, you reach the same crossline at somewhere between 4-5 beers. Why is it so? Why is it that the point of reaching the pleasure point remains different for you and him? Maybe he is a naive player?

Haha! Just kidding. Jokes…

Bucola Plăcerii – David J. Linden

Busola Plăcerii – David J. Linden De ce ne plac filmele, mâncarea nesănătoasă, alcoolul, orgasmul și marijuana

Noi, oamenii, avem o relație complicată cu plăcerea. Petrecem enorm de mult timp și consumăm extrem de multe resurse în căutarea ei. Plăcerea este factorul motivațional central al vieților noastre. Este esențială pentru supraviețuirea noastră și pentru a ne transmite genele următoarei…

"Evolution is a tinkerer and not an engineer, as Francoise Jacob famously said. And when you're a tinkerer, you throw things together to solve the problem at hand. You don't build elegantly and you don't build the way an engineer would build to try to consider all the possible contingencies. You're just solving the one problem that circumstances have dealt you at this moment."

'The Compass Of Pleasure': Why Some Things Feel So Good : NPR

In his new book, The Compass of Pleasure, neuroscientist David Linden maps out the brain's relationship with pleasure and addiction. From junk food to sex to gambling, Linden explains that addictions are actually rooted in the brain's inability to feel pleasure.

Settle in people, settle in because today is the day that David J. Linden, professor of neuroscience at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, talks to Fresh Air's Terry Gross about why vodka, marijuana, orgasms, gambling and other stuff along those lines make us feel.so.darn.good.