They say a healthy lifestyle with a good diet, lots of exercise and proper sleep can work wonders for the student’s brain. But what they don’t tell you is that it eating, exercising, and sleeping during a test doesn’t help improve exam scores. This is why students resort to a “quick fix” of mental energy during exams and … Read more
I am super motivated! …to binge-watch Netflix tonight. I am insanely driven! …to sleep in until noon. I am crazy ambitious! …about eating this entire cake. To a degree we’re all motivated, driven, and ambitious (woo redundancy!), some more so than others. But it isn’t simply a matter of being more motivated than someone else that establishes … Read more
If you can’t hack the game, you’ll have to resort to the next best thing: Hacking the brain. And, fortunately, not all brain hacks are banned by eSport leagues’ ongoing effort to limit “smart drug” usage in the eSports arena. While Adderall and Ritalin are out, most of the nootropics are still fair game for … Read more
I’m not sure what I intend for this picture to indicate: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) -or- A conversation on smart drugs. The ambiguity is ironic: Smart drugs are intended to treat ADHD, and they do a rather good job at it, but they replace the attention deficiency with hyperattentive I-need-to-tell-everyone-everything-at-once-RIGHT-NOW! Of course, I’m exaggerating, … Read more
In Greek mythology, the skillful artist & inventor Daedalus was said to have crafted a Labrynth so intricate & complex that he found himself lost in his own creation. The tale has since become an allegory for the importance of considering the consequences of one’s actions, devices, inventions, etc. Likewise, the subsequent story of Icarus, … Read more