Today's Nerds Can Bench-Press, Too Only nerds take nootropics, I thought? And also: nerds don't workout, right?? This may seem true, if you've reduced your entire worldview to 1980's teen movies. For the most part, the whole nerd vs. jock dichotomy is fiction; or, at the … [Read more...]

Restore and Recharge for Clearer Thinking Foggy hills and mountains are things of beauty. Yet, a fog-filled brain is absolutely not beautiful. (Although, to be fair, I've never actually seen a foggy brain; only felt it... and it sucks!) When brain fog strikes, thoughts go … [Read more...]

Stoner logic ahead: How is it that we don't fully understand the organ with which we think? In the words of Johnnie Cochran: This does not make any sense! It's similar to the brain in the jar thought experiment, in which the limits of our self-consciousness end right before … [Read more...]

Adapt and Conquer Stress with Adaptogens Raise your hand if you've ever felt stressed before. Now, raise your hand if you didn't actually raise your hand, because it's actually pretty weird to raise your hand upon the request of an online article -- that, by the way, has no … [Read more...]

Restore Cognitive Performance with These NGF Boosters Back when I used to sit around in college, watching TV with my face two inches from the monitor, hammering my temple really hard with a hammer, and drinking whiskey straight from the bottle for hours upon hours straight, my … [Read more...]