Points of Interest #29

It’s here again and back on schedule.  This week I’ve got emotion, fear and stigmatization on the mind, parables, heaven and hell and success for the soul and whoopee cushions, spleens and lots and lots of protein for the body, to name just a few.  So without further delay I present especially for you, the reader, the creme de la creme of the internet I happened to have stumbled across surfing the internets-

Attack of the Mad Scientists?

I recently had the opportunity to listen to a rather provocative podcast at All in the Mind about cognitive enhancing drugs.  Specifically they discuss Modafinil, a drug used to treat Narcolepsy, a disease in which sleep comes suddenly and often, to help them with excessive daytime sleepiness.  I was startled to learn that many in the neuroscience community are using this drug, openly, and sharing it with others in order to work longer hours, get more done, focus more, and think more.  This blew we away. 

points of interest 3/15

I think I may be hitting the three month blogger’s wall. I don’t want to write stuff just to write stuff. I would like for it to actually be good and worth reading, and yet I feel a compulsion to blog, blog, blog. Work is getting busy, busy, busy. Lack of time and perfectionism seem to have buried my muse. So I am slowing down to regroup. Thankfully, I can always score points on all the stuff I wish I wrote. Here is the very best of the internet to have crossed my eyes this past week.