So yeah. In the vein of the great Sean, and his blog, and as a sort of half-arsed protest against the evils of Facebook, I've decided to set this bad-boy up. Basically I'mma blog away about general geekery, maths, things I find that interest me, and... yeah, that's about it. Maintains my ties with everyone, whilst allowing me to sever ties with the evil Zuck-empire. Go team.
To business.
Um. Limitless. Watched that last night. Good film, you should full-on see it and things. Really good acting, and, looking into it, the science, whilst being shaky in parts (someone mentions you only use 20% of your brain), is exaggerated reality. I dug into this, and this is what I found.
So, a memory-enhancing or "smart" drug is called a nootropic (from the Greek), and there are quite a few out there in experimental stages... the most promising I could find is a drug called piracetam, or the racetam family. This has been shown to improve cognition in sufferers of Alzheimer's with virtually no side-effects - to the point that you can get it OTC in the UK. So that's number one. Also we've got caffeine to keep you awake, nicotine too though obviously smoking is bad, children. And vitamin-B1, apparently, they all help. Of course you could just study.
But that's dull, isn't it?
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