interesting quotes from today's reading
"So what made all those lab rats lose their minds? Bruce Alexander and his research team had a rather simple hypothesis: The rats had awful lives. They were stressed, lonely, bored and looking to self-medicate. To prove it, Alexander created a lab-rat heaven he called Rat Park. The 200-square-foot residence featured bright balls and tin cans to play with, painted creeks and trees to look at and plenty of room for mating and socializing."
"The dominant monkeys - who, the theory goes, were much less stressed and anxious than the subordinate ones - had 20 percent higher D2 receptor function, while the submissive ones were unchanged. The monkeys were then taught how to self-administer cocaine by pressing a lever, with researchers finding that the dominant monkeys took significantly less cocaine than the subordinate ones."
from "An Anti-Addiction Pill?," http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/magazine/25addiction.html?ex=1151380800&en=e908fdb6a369d28a&ei=5087%0A
"I listened, rapt, as professional trainers explained how they taught dolphins to flip and elephants to paint. Eventually it hit me that the same techniques might work on that stubborn but lovable species, the American husband."
"Once I started thinking this way, I couldn't stop. At the school in California, I'd be scribbling notes on how to walk an emu or have a wolf accept you as a pack member, but I'd be thinking, "I can't wait to try this on Scott."
from "What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage,"
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/fashion/25love.html?ex=1151380800&en=4fd85ed1cccbbfb1&ei=5087%0A
"The dominant monkeys - who, the theory goes, were much less stressed and anxious than the subordinate ones - had 20 percent higher D2 receptor function, while the submissive ones were unchanged. The monkeys were then taught how to self-administer cocaine by pressing a lever, with researchers finding that the dominant monkeys took significantly less cocaine than the subordinate ones."
from "An Anti-Addiction Pill?," http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/magazine/25addiction.html?ex=1151380800&en=e908fdb6a369d28a&ei=5087%0A
"I listened, rapt, as professional trainers explained how they taught dolphins to flip and elephants to paint. Eventually it hit me that the same techniques might work on that stubborn but lovable species, the American husband."
"Once I started thinking this way, I couldn't stop. At the school in California, I'd be scribbling notes on how to walk an emu or have a wolf accept you as a pack member, but I'd be thinking, "I can't wait to try this on Scott."
from "What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage,"
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/fashion/25love.html?ex=1151380800&en=4fd85ed1cccbbfb1&ei=5087%0A