Donna Dierker
@donnadierker.bsky.social
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Brain mapping comedy junkie St. Louis, MO https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wqQsWGUAAAAJ&hl=en
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We're spending our 5th anniversary of Shaturday Morning Cartoons by watching the shattiest of the shatty all day long! Join us!
SHATUR-THON! Watching Shatty Cartoons All Day Long!
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Public Service Broadcasting: Inform, Educate, Entertain. Replaces its road-weary predecessor
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Whether she ever gets an Oscar, Glenn Close has a whole portfolio of award-worthy performances.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/t...
Glenn Close Has Nothing Left to Prove
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Radio interview with autism advocate Aaron Likens on KMOX St. Louis. Aaron is an outstanding speaker and writer. I highly recommend his book Playing in Traffic.

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Morgan James' new album, Soul Remains the Same, includes soulful covers of classic songs from AC/DC, Stone Temple Pilots, Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Living Colour, Soundgarden. I really enjoyed her cover of Better Man, too.

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Morgan James reflects on Soul Remains The Same
Morgan James joins Music Journeys to share how her latest album came together.
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We saw Morgan James and her band perform at City Winery in St. Louis last night. Just amazing. She included R&B covers of several classic rock songs. Her cover Smashing Pumpkins' Tonight, Tonight was my favorite, and similar to this Seattle performance.

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Morgan James "Tonight, Tonight" The Jazz Alley, Seattle, WA 2025
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Still working on Jean Grae's In My Remaining Years. Loving the crazy stories that only Jean can tell.
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I loved this book. Jenny Slate has ingenious ideas for making life special, on your own terms. And the last few chapters are solid gold.

Jenny Slate talks new book, 'Lifeform'
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Jenny Slate talks new book, 'Lifeform'
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I've been a Sean O'Brien fan for many years. He performed at my 50th birthday party at the St. Louis Funny Bone 13 years ago. He also chats with Greg Warren and Tim Convy in the Consumers podcast. Always funny.

Sean O'Brien | Nateland Presents: The Showcase
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Sean O'Brien | Nateland Presents: The Showcase
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"If the therapeutic effects of targeting the thalamus (with Z944 or other compounds) show improvements in a variety of forms/models of mouse ASD, then that would begin to support the idea of preclinical trials.”

Stanford: autism-like behaviors switched off in mice www.psypost.org/stanford-stu...
Stanford study shows autism-like behaviors can be switched off in mice
Autism-like behaviors in mice vanished after researchers calmed a hyperactive brain circuit using targeted drugs and neuromodulation. The findings point to the thalamus as a key player in autism and o...
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