Quoted: More than half the people who take antidepressants for depression never get relief. Why? Because the cause of depression has been oversimplified and drugs designed to treat it aim at the wrong target, according to new research from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. The medications ...

I am going to try this.

Quoted: Piotr Wozniak has a technique to turn people into geniuses, and a portion of the technique is in a software program called SuperMemo. Users around the world apply it to learning languages and gaining language fluency. SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned.

Whoa... big find.

Quoted: Rather than sticking to a single DNA script, human brain cells harbor astonishing genomic variability, according to scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. The findings, to be published in the Aug. 5, 2009, advance online edition of Nature, could help explain brain development and individuality, ...

I noticed today that Squirt (the soda brand) made me feel fairly energized after drinking it. I checked the can to confirm that it didn't have caffeine, and while reading it I saw sodium benzoate and wondered, "I know this is a preservative, but I wonder what the structure of this is? Could this chemical be stimulating me?"

What do you know, there is a study linking the combination of sodium benzoate and certain coloring agents to hyperactive behavior.

Quoted: Of course, maybe some other parasite is making him say that.

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Interview with the man with the highest IQ in the world. His opinions are thought provoking and surprising.

Part 2:
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Part 3
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I feel like this is really big.

Quoted: Infants perceive color in the right hemisphere of the brain, researchers report, while adults do the job in the brain's left hemisphere.

Quoted: In psychiatry, monomania (from Greek monos, one, and mania, mania) is a type of paranoia in which the patient has only one idea or type of ideas. Emotional monomania is that in which the patient is obsessed with only one emotion or several related to it; intellectual monomania is that which is related to only one kind of delirious idea or ideas. In colloquial terms, the term monomania is often attached to subcultures that to the general public appear esoteric. However, the differences between monomania and passion can be very subtle and difficult to recognize.

Quoted: T. Hawk talks with blind skateboarder Tommy Carroll. This kid is amazing, truly inspirational.