I'm moving to New York in July.

Yum.

Remember that high school english professor who told you to avoid the first-person singular personal pronoun? I'm about to marinate my I-Bone steak all over her face...

I hate when people quote The Beatles and/or John Lennon. I love science. My least favorite scientist is Neils Bohr and my favorite scientists are Ben and Jerry (their oatmeal cookie ice cream is transcendental). I think religion is unnecessary and I think atheism is nonsense. I like trespassing. I like climbing buildings. I have a crush on Alanis Morissette. I play scrabble when I'm bored. I am bored when I play scrabble. I do it anyway. I don't care about your fixed-gear. I love art and I love sports. If you think one is any more important or significant than the other, I think you're stupid. I don't think you're unique. I don't think there is any cachet to being unique. I hate giant centipedes more than anything in the universe. I do not own a Fight Club poster. I never will. I adore Jane Goodall. I want to make sweet sweet love to Marie Curie. I like parts of you that you never knew were there. I dislike parts of you that you never knew where there. I like cities. I like David Bowie. I am a neuroscientist. I know a lot of cool things. I hope you do too. I'm Jack.

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"A witty saying proves nothing"
-Voltaire

"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung"
-Voltaire

"Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves"
-Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act"
-Leonard Cohen

"Maybe she's born with it. Maybe it's Maybelline"
-Maybelline Cosmetics Co.

"I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature"
-Adolf Hitler

"Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach"
-Joseph Stalin

"Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him"
-Billy Graham

"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one"
-Thomas Paine

"What if life is just some hard equation
On a chalkboard in a science class for ghosts
You can live again
But you'll have to die twice in the end
In the end
We'll meet again"
-David Berman

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar"
-Sigmund Freud

"I find your lack of faith disturbing"
-Darth Vader

"Stop, Dave. I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it."
-H.A.L. 9000

"There was a band
Called the Pots and Pans
They made this noise
That people couldn't stand
And when they toured
All across the land
The people said, 'no, no, no'
But the drummer said, 'yes, yes, yes'
'This tour is a test'"
-Les Savy Fav

Neurosciencing and avoiding the suburbs. I'll be going to grad school to get my Ph.D in neuroscience after taking a year or two to work at a few labs and really narrow down exactly what it is I want to research for the rest of my life. Right now I'm working in a neurophysics lab in center city Philadelphia performing stereotaxic brain surgery, electrophysiology, and behavioral experiments.

Phrenology. I can also recover both your past and future memories through hypnosis.

How fucking sick I am at generating CA1 pop spikes.

I have many favorites, but will only include those that I feel reveal most about my personality and interests.

Books: Principia Mathematica and 2001: A Space Odyssey

Movies: Dr. Strangelove, The Graduate, and Annie Hall

Television: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Seinfeld, In Treatment, House M.D., Top Chef, NFL Football

Music: David Bowie and Tom Waits

Food: The only three foods that I don't thoroughly enjoy are celery, melons, and licorice.

Internet Access, Pomp and Circumstance, Coffee and Cigarettes, Unanswered Questions, Secular Faith, Empiricism

How I would use the power to make one small animal enormous and one big animal tiny (A giant squirrel and a tiny hippo?).

Getting drunk while watching a SciFi Original Movie event.

Ren and Stimpy scare the shit out of me.

You have some opinion on why the human brain is so amazing. Or... if you have some opinion on why YOU are so amazing.