Thinking about getting a smarter brain? Unfortunately, nootropics can’t really do that. (You’ll have to read books and accumulate experiences and all that time-consuming crap to become genuinely smarter.) However, nootropics for beginners may help make the path to a smarter brain easier and, yes, healthier for nootropic newcomers — which is why more and more people are turning to … Read more
Believe it or not, before I found nootropics (or rather before nootropics found me), I related anything capable of influencing the mind to the destructive habits of hippies and advertisements. Thus when I first heard of nootropics, I took a long sip on my 32nd coffee of the day and asked myself: Why risk it? After all, … Read more
Unpopular opinion: Beyoncé didn’t make the beat sicker. It was Gerald Oster who sneezed on the beat when he co-opted H.W. Dove’s neuro-auditory revelations into his experimentation with binaural beats: an auditory illusion perceived when two different pure-tone sine wave frequencies are presented to a listener dichotically (each to an ear). Otherwise known as “entrainment” for the beats’ … Read more
Not everyone drinks to the point of a hangover. Not everyone drinks period. But I’m guessing that, on both counts, you do. (That’s why you’re here, right?) So the real question comes down to: Are you reading this in preparation or escape? Because let’s face it: There is no escape. When you’re hungover, you’re hungover. While there … Read more
Dementia pugilistica is a term used to mistakenly describe demented pugs as well as accurately signify a state of neurodegeneration commonly associated with boxers–i.e. pugilists. Apparently, receiving hits to the head over and over has repercussions. However, it’s not the only term we use to describe head injury, other titles including: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Traumatic Brain Injury … Read more