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...Yet, does the abuse of performance enhancers extend beyond professional sports? It might surprise some to know that in the realm of academics, there is a growing trend, both in high school and in college, of students abusing prescription drugs to boost their ability to study and concentrate on tests. Use of any type of prescription drug for cognitive gain should be looked down upon with the same amount of social repugnance as juicing up for a sport...
...prospective employers. Those who procrastinate, or feel the need to cram, might choose to swallow a pill in order to be able to study later or more efficiently. You might argue that this is in the name of academia and that nobody gets hurt when people learn more. Yet, in the age where there are pills available for everything, from weight loss to mood elevation, it seems that people are all too willing to forgo hard work in favor of instant gratification. Your straight As might be as impressive as 762 home runs, but by cheating the hard work...
...positive and incentivized experience. Emerson took his idea to Howard J. Shaffer, the director of the Division on Addictions at the Harvard Medical School, who chose him as the division’s associate for public policy. With this new job in hand, Emerson decided to stay in Cambridge. Yet beyond Cambridge itself, Emerson had fallen in love with the Harvard atmosphere. So,instead of moving into an apartment or house off-campus, he spoke with the House Masters of Kirkland and convinced them that his connections could be useful. The House Masters, in return, appointed him to the position...
...great thing about talking to students is that they are still focused on the biggest possible questions and the widest perspectives because they haven’t taken themselves professionally to a niche yet,” Matthews says. “They are wide open as to what they are interested in. If you get into a business crowd, you might find yourself with business questions, but I don’t find that at Harvard...
...recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has reopened the debate about the best way to extract energy in an environmentally responsible manner. However, the response to this spill has reinforced a regrettable, yet pervasive, myth. The climate-change debate is often portrayed as a battle between man and nature, in which only one side can come out ahead. But an examination of the technological options for energy production tells us that this is not the case...