mind drugs, red meat, and how to boost your creative brain!
Here are several excellent articles that may interest you… The first two cover recent LLAW topics (red meat and mind drugs), and these links will give you a totally different slant on each subject. The third article, and the shortest, regards a totally different subject: creativity.
From The New Yorker, titled Brain Gain, is a long piece that first describes how college students are taking advantage of mind drugs (easily found on-campus) to ultra-perform. Then, in true New Yorker style, the author dives into several people at the forefront of cosmetic neurology, and the “transhumanist” movement (who believe we humans have the potential to live a very long time).
And if you are looking for even more motivation to cut down on your red and processed meat consumption, I suggest this relatively short article in the New York Times: Paying a Price for Loving Red Meat by Jane Brody.
I subscribe to an American Medical Association news feeder that every day sends me a digest of the latest medical news, and I have noticed for the last few months, the news is dominated by public health policy and health care economic reform in the United States.
So let me suggest a topic far away from those subjects… from a founder of the company IDEO, which helped design the Apple Computer.
Getting older is much more fun if you constantly keep your “creative juices” flowing, no matter your age; believe me, you will help keep your brain in good form, and this brief and entertaining piece from the IDEO group gives six hints to help us achieve that! Love it!
