Meow. Your typical hilter-skilter, left-handed, Afrocentric, poetically inclined, competitive-weightlifting, neuromantic, rugby-playing, musical-theater-acting, easy-going, easy-listening, faintly artistic, bike-racing, romantically facetious, honestly honest, socially capable introvert, now with more rip-roaring fun than ever before.

I'm currently a student at Swarthmore College in PA. When I'm not, I'm a research assistant at a neuro lab at Stanford working on the affective bases of status quo bias, and the relationship among music, language, and false memory formations.

reading facial expressions and body language.

are probably the stark contrast between my smile and RBF, and the way my ears or nose move when I speak.

But probably my boobs.

Without leaving the letter "B": Brains, barbells, books, de-Bauchery, ball-busting, and burgers.

HI THIS IS THE FUN PART OF MY PROFILE. I like thinking a lot. Here are some things I've been thinking about recently, and if you have any thoughts about them (or anything you want to validate with somebody else) I want to know:

Does the purview of science extend so as to be able to answer David Hume's ought-is problem?

Is there a logically defensible case for deism?

If Haidt's moral foundations theory accurately characterizes the differences between liberal and conservative axiomatic paradigms, HOW THE HELL do I talk to conservatives without making it too obvious I'm smarter than they? Lest they call me "elitist" or whatever word happens to be in vogue.

Following capitalistic libertarianism to one of its logical conclusions, people in certain areas (like the south) will have to relocate to other states that have the capability to provide for them socially and economically. If this is something many if not most cannot do, how is shifting power from the federal government to state governments not arbitrary? Can it be justified at all?

Are the foundations of most social sciences academia weak, given that it is largely rooted in the relativism and outdated paradigms (such as interpretation through the lens of Freudian psychoanalysis) of postmodernist philosophy?

Are some social justice movements counterproductive to the causes which they purport to serve given that they have become caricatures of themselves? Furthermore, can the academic left be taken seriously in light of the Sokal affair?

Do those who criticize science on the bases outlined by "scientism" actually know anything about science?

Why do white people say the darndest things?

Why do I love Regina Spektor so much, bro?

reading in bed like a champion. Or playing Neopets, makin' that BANK like a goddamn MILLIONAIRE.

...foreveralone.jpg

...I'm not really a k-pop star.

Hell, I just said I play Neopets.

Also, not a very private thing as it's a pretty prominent occurrence should you ever meet me in person, but after I started working out I've never been able to reconcile my newfound width with my ability to turn. So, in a Zoolander-esque quandary, I can't turn for shit and always bump into things that happen to be within six feet of me.

...you make Maher look like O'Reilly, and think capitalism isn't a fun time. If that's what you are, I have already fetishized you.