These posts aren’t associated with a particular podcast episode. They’re just good, old-fashioned writing on a variety of nootropic, neuroscience, or personal optimization topics.
Smart Drug Smarts has been on an extended summer vacation since the start of July, and I feel I owe everyone an explanation. Of course, a really good explanation would have come before-the-fact, rather than now - but honestly, I didn’t think at the beginning I would take an extended break. Or that it would last this […]
The “Fundamental Attribution Error” is one of the biggest misfires in the default way our brains operate. And modern technology is turning up the dial.
“An unknown compelling force” was the official finding as to what killed nine young, strong, experienced hikers in the Ural mountains of Russia in 1959.
Alien life is (almost) infinitely unlikely. But the universe gets (almost) infinitely many tries. So whose infinity is bigger?
Pretty darn interesting links from past episodes. Our goal: to stop these nuggets from being lost to the ages.
Pretty much every episode of Smart Drug Smarts covers yet another way to make your brain even better and healthier. Some are things you’re already doing, some are things you’ve heard about but haven’t tried, and some are things you never even knew were cognitive enhancers (methylene blue, anyone?).
Just how dedicated are you to improving your brain? Pick your brain booster: we’ve got options from easy, like blueberries, to out there, like DMT.
Had I just woken up? Or had I been awake? I was sure I was awake — although I couldn’t actually see anything. I also couldn’t feel anything. That is, I literally couldn’t feel anything. (And here I mean literally from back when literally meant “literally,” before literally started meaning “not literally, but figuratively.”) I […]
If your society allows consanguineous marriages (more to the point, cousins making babies with cousins) the genetic impact costs you almost 95% of the geniuses that random luck would have provided.
What you should eat, take, and do according to three months of interviews with neuroscientists and doctors.
Practical Advice for Navigating Autoimmunity in Everyday Life In Episode 136, Dr. Terry Wahls shared the clinical results of her latest research. Wahls herself is a walking testimonial to the effectiveness of the dietary changes now known as “the Wahls Protocol™” — and clinical research is currently providing further evidence to reinforce her recommendations. For those who experience the daily […]