Bita Moghaddam
@bita137
Ketamine Karen, Dopamine Dame Here via Tehran/KU/Yale/Pitt author of KETAMINE and a lot of good papers
Stumbled upon wild plum trees on my walk/hike the other day and of course went back and picked several kilos of ripe plums. So far I have made pickled plums, compote with rosemary, and plum infused vodka. Other ideas?
Tis that time of the year when one does not need water or electrolytes on hikes
You are giving him too much credit. Our beloved molecule was already ruined in 2003 when the movie DOPAMINE (subheading "chemistry or chemical" 🤮) was released with much hoopla at Sundance
Magical walk on the beech during a super low tide. I met a squadron of pelicans but they flew away before I could take their picture 😊
DHA/omega3 maxing with the maximum amount of clotted cream a scone can handle (why one cannot find proper clotted cream in US continues to dumbfound me)
My first attempt at Oyster Rockefeller and it was delicious Oregon Netarts Bay oysters using a modified Mellisa Clark @nytimes.com recipe
“world number one” player named Trump is beaten by an Iranian. What are the odds…😂
Again my problem is that American taxpayers are underwriting this mess Many working Americans don’t even have health insurance (Israelis have very good and mostly free healthcare) and instead we are paying so much for death and destruction and not solving anything
Meanwhile stock up on Dubai Chocolate products if you like it. The pistachio for them comes mostly from Iran Pistachios btw are indigenous to the Iranian plateau with archaeological evidence of consumption dating back to +6500 BC I grew up driving by pistachio fields and no fruit is more beautiful
I know, right? I feel like I should now start a sleep maxing podcast 😂
Iran rolling out Persian carpets - instead of polyester red carpet - when Eisenhower visited Tehran in 1959 (and no worries that rugs were harmed as properly made Persian rugs thrive under foot traffic)
I don’t know but it is beautiful. Here js another humble scene from Mowlavi (Rumi) station with tiles + Rumi verses 😍
Random Tehran metro stations I guess when you design things for a few thousand years, you get good at it
Classic example of Iranian grit and intentionality: Sharif Uni may have been bombed but that is no excuse to stop class! Math professor in his bombed office yesterday giving his scheduled lecture online for the randomized algorithm course
Thanks. I guess the AI database they use doesn’t have the location of synagogues? Let’s hope they have that info now as there are some ancient beauties in urban areas all over Iran. Here is a picture of the Yusef Abad neighborhood synagogue in Tehran that so far has not been hit کنیسه یوسف آباد
Timeline cleanser Tehran yesterday Pictures taken from one of the main entrances of the Grand Bazaar in central Tehran The area has been used for trade for over a thousand years but the current structure dates back to the 17th century Photo credit @hajnooeedin
Synagogues in Iran are being bombed by Israel on Passover I guess the aim is to destroy the Iranian/Persian civilization? (There are still about 100 synagogues in Iran)
One reason many justifiably worry about use of a nuclear weapon on Tehran (city of 10 million) is that the Israelis have been openly talking about it (eg 👇)
The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant 👇 has been bombed four times so far. Tehran is over 1000 km away but a radioactive fallout will pretty much abolish life in Gulf nations
Tehran today. “Because Tehran lives on. Because Iran wasn’t born in a day” Via fellow Tehrani @arashtehran.bsky.social
Wonderful conference - one of the absolutely best @sirsofficial.bsky.social meetings I have attended And seeing the incredible art after the conference did not disappoint: breathtaking photographs by (Iranian) Mojgan Razzaghi and beautifully curated exhibits of (Portland raised) Mark Rothko
Dah!!! Only if we had not fired our own experts instead of relying on Bibi (Via @barakravid.bsky.social )
Timeline cleanser Gorgeous Iranian tile work in Shiraz from Qajar prior (1800s-1925ish)
Thank you for your thoughtful replies I asked because I find that more and more people here, in their comfortable suburban existence, are justifying and/or ignoring killing of innocent people whose only crime is to have unelected cruel leaders