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Ingo

Be not simply good, be good for something.

About Me

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy. Or maybe not? Maybe, enough bottles in front of me will do just as good as a lobotomy... I'm sure some of my friends would subscribe to that.
I moved from Germany to Chicago about 5 years ago to get my Doctorate in Neuroscience and to get way too busy. Almost there though! Probably not the prototypical scientist. Love life as much as data and people as much as solitude. Love music as much as brain anatomy. Either lost in deep thought (or pretending I am) or smirking about silly things. Including myself. Smirked a lot in my life, I guess, what used to be dimples is now valleys...

The end of a dream; the magical summer of 2006:

My Interests

MUSIC, Volleyball, Soccer, Travelling, Dancing, Drumming, Outdoors, Cinema, Philosophy, Politics, Ice Cream, Eating in General, Sleeping, recently: SCUBA and Yoga... and the brain

I'd like to meet:

The sandman: I like hanging out on his turf so much.Nikola Tesla: attempted to lower my ComEd bill.Albert Hofmann: such a good chef.Paul Watzlawick: he needs to talk to Albert Hofman (and George W.) about reality.God: diagnose and treat his ADHD (maybe with ALbert's recipes?).

Music:

Air, Autechre, Royksopp, Nightmares on Wax, Kevin Yost, John Beltran, Joey Beltram, Koop, Klute, Juan Atkins, Stacey Pullen, Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, Roni Size, Front 242, Bjork, Nada Surf, Yo La Tengo, Beck, Blackalicious, The Roots, The Libertines, The Velvet Underground, Ben Harper, Radiohead, TV on the radio, Hot Water Music, Sparta/At the drive in, Goldie, DJ Shadow, Rjd2, MIA, Mia, Wir sind Helden, Everything but the girl, Monday Michiru, Thievery Corp, Pink Floyd, Manu Chao, Seu Jorge, Bebel Gilberto, Seeed, Herbert Groenemeyer, Kettcar, Tomte, Beethoven, Wagner, Liszt, Dvorak...

Movies:

Munich, Little Miss Sunshine, City of God, Brokeback Mountain, Gegen die Wand (Head on), anything Monty Python, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, Bladerunner, Taxi Driver, Breaking the Waves...

Television:

Sometimes... Family Guy, Seinfeld... Lost

Books:

Hesse - Steppenwolf, Dostojewski - The Brothers Karamasoff, Bukowski - Hot Water Music, Feyerabend - Conquest of Abundance, Watzlawik - Wie wirklich ist die Wirklichkeit?, Foer - How Soccer Explains the World, Searle - Minds, Brains and Science, Vian - I spit on your graves...

Heroes:

Juergen Klinsmann und Rudi Voeller

My Blog

on the amicability of male protein

Does semen have antidepressant properties?Gallup GG Jr, Burch RL, Platek SM.Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, USA. [email protected] a sample of...
Posted by Ingo on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:38:00 PST

viagra goes generic

In pharmacology, all drugs have two names, a trade name and a generic name.   For example, Tylenol (trade name) also has a generic name: acetaminophen. Aleve is also called naproxen. Amoxil ...
Posted by Ingo on Tue, 16 May 2006 09:24:00 PST