A Neuroscientist explains what Doomscrolling is doing to your brain
4/29/20261 hr 44 min
Dr. Michael Keane is a medical doctor and psychologist who holds a PHD in behavioural Neuroscience. We chat about creativity, trauma and social media use
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Greetings, you bandy-legged chandeliers. Welcome to the Blindboy Podcast. If this is your first episode, consider going back to an earlier podcast. And if you're a regular listener, if you're a 10-foot Declan, a steaming quaver, then you know the craic. You're familiar with the lore of this podcast. Let's begin this week with a poem. We haven't had a poem in a very, very long time. This piece was submitted to me by the actor Daniel Day-Lewis, and this poem is called Is It a Priest or a Seagull? Is it a priest or a seagull who has his hands inside my mouth? Is it a communion or a feather that bleeds into my soul? Is it a priest or a seagull who has vandalized my bin? Do my eyes hurt from the sunlight glinting on your plumage? Did the raindrops stain your collar? Say your mass into a can of Fanta. Bless my shin bones with your claws. Is it a priest or a seagull who is shitting in the wind? That was Is It a Priest or a Seagull by Daniel Day-Lewis. I wrote a treatment for a fucking sitcom