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Oh Pot, Is There Nothing You Can’t Make Better? -Marijuana’s THC Removes Alzheimer’s Junk From Brain

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease, Mind/Brain, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll

Oh Pot, Is There Nothing You Can’t Make Better? -Marijuana’s THC Removes Alzheimer’s Junk From Brain
vintage kool cigarettes pin up ad by ben-hur baz


Reefer Madness Perhaps Not So Mad After All:
Now I know the stoner-crowd has a rep for being a bunch of hippie-dropouts who will use just about any pseudoscience available to defend their habit.

Because they want their drugs and that’s all there is to it. -Munchies be damned.

Well buckle-up Amanda Bynes, because !SCIENCE! just dropped one of the dankest jams in-favor of THC since the invention of the cannabinoid-receptor 600 million years ago.

(not counting any of the Magnum Opuses by Messrs. Cheech & Chong)…

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Video: The Science Of Us Checks Out Why There’s Something Better For Your Brain Than Mindfulness Meditation

Filed Under: Mind/Brain, Video

Video: The Science Of Us Checks Out Why There’s Something Better For Your Brain Than Mindfulness Meditation


There Is More Than 1 Type Of Meditation:
There is a lot of talk recently about Mindfulness.

That is: Meditating really hard on your immediate-present and not letting stray thoughts take over. -The Eckhart Tolle stuff.

And while there is nothing wrong with this type of meditation, another type more similar to Zoning-Out is also important to your mental abilities, and your mental health…

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The Power Of Naps: The Queen Of Sleep On Why You Need Them To Rescue Productivity & Creativity

Filed Under: Mind/Brain, Video

The Power Of Naps: The Queen Of Sleep On Why You Need Them To Rescue Productivity & Creativity


Accidentally-Awesome Sleep Research That Will Change Your Life:
So, Dr. Sara Mednick had been struggling for a research topic when she found an interesting opportunity.

Her mentor had only studied what you’d call “normal” sleep that you have at night, but not at other times.

And that’s where she found Gold! As she describes in this video, everything on Earth goes through cycles in time, and we’d be smart to remember that.

-Which is where her scientific study comes in, because largely: We Don’t. And there are real downsides to that…

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If You’re Too Rushed To Even Go To Starbucks, Your Problem Is Now Solved: Enter GoCubes! -Regular Hexahedrons Of Nootropic-Caffeine Brainsplosion!

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Mind/Brain, Nutrition, Vitamins/Supplements

If You’re Too Rushed To Even Go To Starbucks, Your Problem Is Now Solved: Enter GoCubes! -Regular Hexahedrons Of Nootropic-Caffeine Brainsplosion!


 
gocubes by nootrobox chewable coffee main page product screenshot with headerGet Your Fix Of Go-Go Juice While You’re On The Go:
We’ve all been there once or twice. No time for anything; even the AM-Jumpstart.

The morning coffee is a ritual, a checkin with yourself, and also the crucial happenings down at the passive-aggressively-staffed local café.

But sometimes you either had a night out, a night in, Jason-Bourne-grade post-drunk-amnesia, or you’re just running terribly late.

Well Nootrobox is about to solve all only one or two of those problems with their magical new Brain-Dyn-O-Mite: Go Cubes!…

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Move Over, Ted Williams’ Head! -Frankenstein Lives! Doctors Given Permission To Reanimate Dead Brains

Filed Under: Aging, Better Living Through Chemistry, Bio-Tech

Move Over, Ted Williams’ Head! -Frankenstein Lives! Doctors Given Permission To Reanimate Dead Brains


What Could Possibly Go Wrong?:
We tend to think that people with a certain level of severe brain injuries or dysfunction are gone & officially Brain Dead.

And though miraculous stories like “Finding Emilie” point to some type of survival even in a “Locked-In” scenario,

Past a certain threshold of function was considered, perhaps for mercy’s sake, the end of the line.

Well, in what just might be some of the most ethically-sketchy experiments not done by world-war totalitarians, a few doctors decided to test that hypothesis.

And they just got approval…

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LSD Makes You Think Like A Child-Prodigy, Probably Detangles You Down From The Blues

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Mind/Brain, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll

LSD Makes You Think Like A Child-Prodigy, Probably Detangles You Down From The Blues
3 faces psychedelic girl composite white blue red kele by mike monaghan


Timothy Leary Was Right:
Across history, many people have turned to psychoactive substances for a variety of reasons; many times to effect a deeper change instead of just a temporary high.

Among that list of “shamanistic” drugs like Salvia, Psilocybin, Ayahuasca and DMT, LSD has always been the good-old standby.

Now SCIENCE! is discovering it’s not just for stoners & dropouts. LSD and its siblings may actually rewire the brain and in the process, also fix some other problems.

And a recent brain-imaging study by The Imperial College of London is showing us how…

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Video: The Science Of Us Discusses How Anxiety Might Actually Improve Your Brain

Filed Under: Mind/Brain, Video

Video: The Science Of Us Discusses How Anxiety Might Actually Improve Your Brain


In this video, the Science of Us talks about the interesting side of a difficult psychological ailment: Anxiety.

For some of us we’ve either known, -or been someone who is way too reactive or neurotic to potential-threats; or even imagined-ones.

Well in nature’s endearingly-odd way, it turns out there is very likely an upside to this analysis-paralysis.

And it starts with Greater Connections…

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MIT Scientists Help Explain Zombies With Fiber Optics

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Gadgets, Mind/Brain

MIT Scientists Help Explain Zombies With Fiber Optics
the walking dead season 5 publicity poster


Ever feel like after last night’s over-40 drinking-binge you were barely making it through your day?

And though you were still technically on your feet, you felt like you were “half-asleep”?

Well thanks to MIT’s researchers, we’ve found out you were more right than you know…

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