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Monthly Archives: January 2009
Antidepressants – do they increase or decrease your life span?
Antidepressants, as I pointed out yesterday, is the most widely use prescription drug in America. Hence you could say it is likely one of the most used brain [..]
BIL conference – just signed up.
Image by billerickson via Flickr I previously wrote about the BIL conference – which is an alternative to the high-end TED conference. I mentioned at the time that [..]
Most common brain hack: antidepressants
Image via Wikipedia Probably the most widely used brain hack is the use of antidepressants. Is this a good hack or bad hack? Recent data indicates the most [..]
Freeze those testes: frozen in time – Part II
Image via Wikipedia A few days ago I wrote about the group that cloned mice from tissue taken from a carcass thrown into a -80 freezer for 16 [..]
Simple foods to improve your health: Part I
Image via Wikipedia I have not covered diet much on this blog so far. Today I will give a cursory glance (Part I) at some potential foods you [..]
Frozen in time – thaw me out: a 2008 Breakthrough
Image via Wikipedia We probably have all watched or read some sci-fi movie where either animals (e.g. Jurassic Park) or humans (e.g. Austin Powers) are brought back to [..]
Rebooting a synthetic genome – a potential 2009 breakthrough
Image via Wikipedia Rebooting a synthetic genome – think of what that really means. “Printing” off of a genome of whatever combination of genes, or even newly invented/tweaked [..]
Hope and change: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Image by richliu(???) via Flickr I was fortunate enough to watch, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” a couple times a few days ago, and at many levels [..]
BIL conference – a TED alternative.
TED (ideas worth spreading) is a world famous conference, and many of us have watched incredible videos of the talks from this conference. However, the attendance of TED [..]
Reading and your brain: past, present, and future
Image via Wikipedia Most of us take reading for granted but in the grand scheme of things it is a fairly recent invention and skill of humans. Even [..]
