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Daily archive Jan 26, 2012

Brain Food: Nootropics and Cognitive Enhancement

By Devin Van Dyke Columnist Intelligence is the raw material of human achievement. Every distinction between man and animal is the result of our exceptional brains. Even though the forces of evolution have not ceased to work on us, for the last 50,000 years the individual human brain has not substantially changed. Our remote hunter-gatherer...

Evil Twins

By Julie Gorham Columnist “Evil twins.” Google it. You’ll find a Wikipedia article on it. You’ll find YouTube clips. You’ll do all these things because 1) I just gave you an excuse to procrastinate, and 2) because the real evil twins, SOPA and PIPA haven’t passed . . . yet. (Don’t know what they are?...