The Neuroscientist Airport Ambush

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Georgia Kirkpatrick is a neuroscientist who studies the reward system in the context of drugs of abuse and highly palatable foods. She hosted this week's ology at San Diego airport, where she asked smart strangers on smart questions to make her layover fly by. Georgia explains why people are buying black market ozempic cocaine relapses water filters mammalian monogamy some stats on cocktails how to be a good momWhy sleep deprivation sucks vaping with rats and why asking smart strangers onsmart questions can make a layover just fly by.

I’m at the airport and there are hundreds of brain scientists everywhere. So I swallowed my dignity/anxiety and approached strangers about the neuroscience they do. The result is a bushel of info on cravings, sleep, consciousness, addiction, dopamine, monogamy, Ozempic, toxins in your brain and so much more with: Georgia Kirkpatrick, Isabella Montana, Dr. Marissa Co, Chancey Garrett, Noah Millman, Pique Choi, Dr. Barbara Sorg and Elizabeth Plunk. Oops, we just made a bunch of new friends. All thanks to poster tubes, a.k.a: nerdurdurs.

A donation went to the Society for Neuroscience at SFN.org

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