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Are Smart Drugs the Answer to Bad Moods—and a Bad Economy? Discover

Link for this Post: Are Smart Drugs the Answer to Bad Moods—and a Bad Economy? by Sherry Baker in Discover Magazine.

This is a wide ranging article about “smart drug’s” that covers a set of topics much broader than its title would suggest. Rather than excerpt one section and have you read the article. I will list a few of the highlights and then let you read it.

Recently introduced attention enhancing drugs such as Provigal and Modafinil Current and future memory enhancement drugs including a group called the ” ampakines” The creativity enhancing qualities of psychedelic compounds transcranial magnetic Read more »

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The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

Link for this Post: The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

This link (which came by way of the PatternHunter blog: is to a new (at least to me) research center with a fascinating focus: Here is a bit from the intro to their website ( bold the center paragraph which is the meat of the matter

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Google Earth Maps Burning Man

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Burning Man Earth: Mapping the Cultural Genome

Burning Man in 3D — CNET

Google Earth maps Burning Man Lifehacker.

I got these links via a nice post by Lifehacker which I reference above. Here is the introduction to this mash-up of Burning Man and Google Earth from the Burning Man site:

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Why Do Humans Kiss? on Scienceline.Com

Why Do Humans Kiss? on Scienceline.Com

This interesting post addresses the question of whether kissing is instinctual or a learned behavior.

The answer is surprising. According to the this article:

A big question is whether kissing is learned or instinctual. Some say it is a learned behavior, dating back to the days of our early human ancestors. Back then, mothers may have chewed food and passed it from their mouths into those of their toothless infants. Even after babies cut their teeth, mothers would continue to press their lips against their toddlers’ cheeks to comfort them.

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