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If you haven't already heard the term nootrope, better jot it down. Chances are you'll hear it a lot in the future. A marriage of the Greek words noos, for "mind," and tropein, for "toward," it refers to drugs that enhance mental performance?popularly known as smart drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Staying Sharp: Can You Find Concentration in a Bottle? | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

The smart-pill movement blossomed in 1990 with the publication of a little book called Smart Drugs and Nutrients: How to Improve Your Memory and Increase Your Intelligence Using the Latest Discoveries in Neuroscience, by gerontologist Ward Dean and science writer John Morgenthaler. It lists three dozen steroids for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ultra Think Fast | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

The essays illumine one of Teilhard's central beliefs: evolution has not stopped, but has merely shifted its emphasis from the material to the spiritual. "Life is ceaseless discovery," he wrote. "Life is movement." First, from layers of earthly matter billions of years old, evolved the biosphere, the realm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theology: The Noosphere Revisited | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

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