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...adjusting for schooling and immigration status, the results were unequivocal: being a polyglot (or at least a biglot) fights brain rot. What's not clear is why. Researchers speculate the ability to operate in two languages could - like exercise or stimulating leisure and social activity - help the brain continue normal functions even as it decays physically. Just don't expect great things from your French refresher course. The study, appearing in the February issue of Neuropsychologia, defines bilingual as "regularly using at least two languages" throughout adulthood - and there's no evidence that flipping through phrase books will help. Quel...
With that in mind, Farah is studying modafinil, a drug developed for narcolepsy that is prescribed off-label to patients with depression, ADHD or even jet lag. In the military, it's used to sharpen soldiers' alertness and cognition. Her research is attempting to determine how this chemical affects normal people. "Is there a trade-off," she wonders, "between focusing attention and reducing creativity? And if more workers use it to excel, will we have a workforce of narrow, rigid thinkers...
Finally, for a laugh or two, stop by the Silly Tasting Note Generator at gmon.com/tech/stng.shtm which spoofs pedantic wine criticism. You can instruct the program to pour out "normal silly" or "extra silly" comments--maybe even one sillier than "the tightly woven texture of pigeon flesh...
...arrested and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. But that extent, Harvard students should be well aware, varies wildly. Massachusett’s Controlled Substances Act imposes a harsh mandatory sentence of two to 15 years of jail time on top of a normal sentence if one is convicted of a drug crime within a 1,000-foot radius of a “school property.” Most students at Harvard, however, are scarcely aware of the existence of nearby schools, let alone their proximity to them. For instance, the Radcliffe Child Care Center below...
...Never before in U.S. history had Jewish leaders shown such bold hostility toward Evangelical Christians, the largest Protestant community in America and, by most measures, the most philo-Semitic and pro-Israel. In normal times, this would be paradoxical. In an age of jihad it was dangerously perverse...