Heather rants about addiction inflation. She seems to fear the trend towards attributing behavior to the phenotype.
First, I want to defend the labeling of foods as addictive. There isn’t a magic distinction between “positive addiction” which seeks stimulation of pleasure centers and “negative addition” in avoidance of pain. The brain gets balanced […]
Monthly Archives: April 2004
My brain made me do it-
April 29, 2004 – 12:00 am
food
April 26, 2004 – 3:46 pm
Kristan may be here for the Government Disney theme park of monuments and museums, but I love DC for the restaurants.
After driving up from Baltimore on Sunday, we were starving and randomly chose a restaurant near the hotel: Trio’s. The kitchen was swamped and we waited for some time before they brought out meat, […]
Washington National Cathedral
April 19, 2004 – 12:00 am
This trip, I got to take the interior tour of the Washington National Cathedral. It isn’t Notre Dame, but was quite exciting for this armchair architect. There is an incredible amount of historic detail in stained glass, stone, wood, and fabric; one could take weeks simply taking if all in. Of note […]
Udvar-Hazy Center
April 19, 2004 – 12:00 am
One of Kristan’s passions is space exploration, so visiting the Enterprise space shuttle at the Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Center was a must. Because of the distance from DC, I suspect a lot of tourists will miss this museum; but anybody that enjoys the large exhibits of the National Air & Space Museum owes it to […]
Washington DC 2004
April 19, 2004 – 12:00 am
The weather has been better than we could have hoped. Unseasonably warm and dry, beginning the day we arrived and ending as we left. Several times we’ve been told that we picked the right week to be here.
Since I was going to be gone so long, I took my car in to have […]