The New York Times investigates the strange history of American antibiotics – and how the medicine hailed as a “superdrug” in the 1940s might have made us an overweight… Read the rest “Are antibiotics making us obese?”
Nature explains the unusual effects that chloride ions can have on our developing brains, and what that means for a drug that seems to help autistic kids socialize:
… Read the rest “Diuretic drug appears to help autism.”The findings, reported
And your mood, of course, but Laboratory Equipment doesn’t get into that. No, all they focus on is the boost caffeine gives your long-term memory:
… Read the rest “Caffeine improves your memory.”Michael Yassa, assistant professor
Outside meanders out of the campground and into the chem lab, following a Connecticut College experiment determining just how strong our junk-food cravings can get. As it turns out, the… Read the rest “Oreos “as addictive as cocaine.””
Science Daily doesn’t actually get into the parents’ responses, but it’s easy enough to imagine. Columbia University researchers have linked soft drinks to “aggression,… Read the rest “Parents *shocked* by study linking soda to kids’ behavioral problems.”
In the 11th century, this was the pinnacle of medical knowledge – a book called Kitab fi al-adwiyah al-mufradah compiled by an Andalusian scholar Abu Ja`far al-Ghafiqi.
It’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate from Kitab fi al-adwiyah al-mufradah by Abu Ja`far al-Ghafiqi.”
Alternet (of course) spreads the news that researchers studying our earliest ancestors have collected some intriguing proof that cave painters were tripping:
… Read the rest “Prehistoric art shows psychedelic traces, scientists say.”Their thesis intriguingly
Nature publishes a study on minocycline (remember that name, stupid men, it’s a kind of tetracycline), which not only kills germs but also keeps men from trusting attractive women… Read the rest “An antibiotic robs pretty women of their power over men. I am not making that up.”
Vice, of all publications, examines the strange chemistry of the first-known psychedelic sponges… trying to figure out why sponges would make something as potent as DMT anyway… Read the rest “Psychedelic sponges. Why?”
Nature reports that the link between youthful indulgence in marijuana and IQ loss might be overstated:
… Read the rest “Dope smokers maybe not so dopey.”Ole Røgeberg, a labour economist at the Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research
New York Times reviews the research demonstrating that MDMA, better known as X, can work wonders with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder patients:
… Read the rest “More on the “party drug” that’s helping America’s veterans (and others).”Government regulators criminalized the
The Independent has a surprisingly lucid summary of a 25-year longitudinal study of cannabis users from ages 13 to 38. And they found that teen marijuana users dropped their IQs by 8 points… Read the rest “Cannabis does lower IQ. By about 8 points.”
BBC breaks some not-terribly-encouraging news from the stoner desk. Neuromedical researchers have found marijuana-based meds don’t slow the progress multiple sclerosis:
… Read the rest “Cannabis pills not effective against MS.”Lead
Scientific American veers into “No, really?” territory with news that cocaine ages your brain prematurely:
… Read the rest “Coke ages brains.”“As we age we all lose gray matter,” Karen Ersche of the Behavioral
…of killing endangered animals. Or at least Nature hypes up enough evidence to put Chinese medicine on trial:
… Read the rest “DNA evidence finds Chinese medicine guilty…”“There’s absolutely no honesty in the labelling of these products.
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