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 least, it's a dated cultural "clique" … [Read more...]

Can you take nootropics for BDNF? It's a similar question to: can you grow your brain? -- a question which may cause reasonable skepticism. After all, aren't neurons finite? What you get is what you get, so you better not drink that drink nor smoke those drugs? Sure, it's not … [Read more...]

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 missing, memories become muddled, motivation and … [Read more...]

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 friends used to tell me: stop, you'll destroy all your … [Read more...]

It's a triumphant moment when a writer finally gets to say it: "I am a writer." But in this day and age of bloggers, freelance writers, technical writers, copywriters, journalists, novelists, etc., what does the title "writer" even mean anymore? Do all writers share similar … [Read more...]