- 11: 11
- what are you working on now
- school wise
- 11: 13
- Junaid Merchant
- i work in a rat lab, which pays for half my tuition and gives me $200 a month, but i think my thesis is going to be on cultural neuroscience
- 11: 13
- mickey
- that is a contrast
- but, cultural neuroscience seems rad
- 11: 14
- Junaid Merchant
- it is actually
- it is all about studying how being raised in different cultures causes people to have differences in cognitive processes
- even in the brain
- 11: 16
- Junaid Merchant
- there is the risk of people interpreting it is as scientific racism or something, but everyone that studies it is very multicultural and careful about not interpreting the findings in that way
- 11: 16
- mickey
- so if you live in a wacked out consumerist culture it will show up in your brain
- 11: 16
- yeah
- 11: 16
- mickey
- cool
