Posts Tagged ‘dietary supplements’

Confessions of a ten-a-day man

Confessions of a ten-a-day man
William Leith used to take painkillers morning and night – for the headaches he had and the headaches he worried he might get. He’s not alone. As the instant-relief market explodes, he investigates: are too many pills too much of a good thing? From the Guardian. When I was growing up in...
February 25th, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More

Drugs & the Internet: Cyberdellic (R)evolution

Drugs & the Internet: Cyberdellic (R)evolution
This is a transcript of a talk by Charlotte Walsh at Retox Seminar earlier this month: Drugs & the Internet are inextricably and symbiotically entwined. Indeed, the very origins of the Internet are bound up with the exuberant experimentation with psychedelic drugs that took place in Silicon Valley...
February 4th, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More

Rat Made Supersmart — Similar Boost Unsafe in Humans?

Rat Made Supersmart — Similar Boost Unsafe in Humans?
By modifying a single gene, scientists have made Hobbie-J the smartest rat in the world, a new study says. A similar gene tweak might boost human brainpower too, but scientists warn that there is such a thing as being too smart for your own good. Matt Kaplan for National Geographic News For years...
December 16th, 2009 | Science of the Mind | Read More

Feeling Go(o)d: The Physics of Emotion

Feeling Go(o)d: The Physics of Emotion
Even before she was chief of brain biochemistry at the National Institutes of Health, Candace Pert made a breakthrough discovery that changed the way scientists understand the mind-body connection. She found the opiate receptor, the mechanism by which a class of chemicals (peptides) alters the mind and...
December 8th, 2009 | Science of the Mind | Read More

Left in the Dark

Left in the Dark
While a student at Edinburgh Botanic Gardens and preparing a short dissertation entitled ‘The Genetic Manipulation of Plants’ the subconscious seeds of a revolutionary new theory were sown in Tony Wright’s mind. Over the next 20 years a mixture of scientific curiosity and radical self-experimentation...
November 17th, 2009 | Science of the Mind | Read More

Is your cheeseburger causing global warming?

Is your cheeseburger causing global warming?
James Cascio exhibits the growing concern that modern dietary habits are unnatural and unsustainable. In fact the global livestock management industry occupies 30% of the world’s land surface and is responsible for 18% of human-made Greenhouse Gas emissions – that’s 4% more than the...
October 21st, 2009 | Environment | Read More

Popping pills – Cognitive enhancement

Popping pills – Cognitive enhancement
This article considers the controversial subject of cognitive enhancing dietary supplements and the potentially unjustified prejudices surrounding them in today’s society. VN:F [1.7.8_1020]please wait...Rating: 7.0/10 (1 vote cast)VN:F [1.7.8_1020]Rating: 0 (from 0 votes)
September 28th, 2009 | Science of the Mind | Read More