twenty four seven is just a coincidence that everything you know is wrong joining me now is dr gregory berns author of the book dog how dogs love us a neuroscientist and his adopted dog decode the canine brain dr burns welcome it's great to be here thanks for joining us what prompted you to study the relationship between man and dog i've always been a dog although i spent my entire career studying human brains it was actually one of my favorite dogs. passed away several years ago that got me wondering what was going on in his head and whether he loved me in that kind of the same way that i loved him so you did an m.r.i. on one ear dogs why and what did you learn and maybe you want to very quickly explain what an m.r.i. is sure an m.r.i. is tool that we use for medical imaging primarily although it research we use it to study brain function basically by looking at changes and blood flow and this is what we've been doing in humans for twenty years so. after we kind of hit upon this idea to apply it to dogs big challenge was training dogs to go in an m.r.i. because if we want to study brain fun

yeah ok dr gregory berns thanks. thanks so much for being with us being here now everything you know about man's best friend is right. it is the good the bad of the very very musa logically good. state repealed marijuana is already decriminalized in massachusetts but come two thousand and sixteen it could be completely legal as in recreational pot that's because activist group of a state repealed is working on a campaign to make legalization the question in the twenty sixteen about if the campaign succeeds it would make massachusetts the third state after washington in colorado to legalize marijuana for two thousand and sixteen is still a long way off things are looking good for bay state repeals legalization efforts as it uses voters handily approved decriminalization in two thousand and eight and just last year okayed thirty five medical marijuana dispensary some that stick to manage this all works out the phrase green monster could take on a whole new meaning. without their public a national committee the g.o.p.'s