Methane based World: Creation of an azotosome
Imagine a place where seas aren’t water but liquid methane, and life doesn’t breathe oxygen. Cornell researchers modeled cells that could exist [read more…]
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Researcher’s Chemically Control a Mouse’s Mind
One minute the mouse was starving, and the next it turned away from its food, leaving it untouched. Its sudden bursts of activity were [read more…]
Addicted to Certainty: Why Our Brains Love Dogma
Addiction to Certainty has been with us since the first brain learned to recognize a pattern in fire, in predators, in the [read more…]
Addicted to Certainty: Why Our Brains Love Dogma
Addiction to Certainty has been with us since the first brain learned to recognize a pattern in fire, in predators, in the seasons. [read more…]
Puppy Farms: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Dog Rescue
Puppy farms. The name alone sounds like something out of a Pixar spinoff — fuzzy optimism in pastel colors. But peel back the [read more…]
Elimination: Clearing Life, Freeing the Brain
Life holds too much. Emotional baggage, habits, attachments—they pile up and weigh the brain down. The book: Elimination: The Buddhist Methodology for Letting Go and Moving On [read more…]
Elimination: Clearing Life, Freeing the Brain
Life holds too much. Emotional baggage, habits, attachments—they pile up and weigh the brain down. The book: Elimination: The Buddhist Methodology for Letting Go and Moving On by Chip Von Gunten (editor of Neurodope Magazine [read more...]
Earthquake Detector Invented 10,000 Years Ago
The Earth has been speaking forever; we just finally learned how to listen. Before satellites, sensors, and seismographs, humans already knew something was rumbling below. It wasn’t prophecy or magic—it was pattern recognition, carved in [read more...]
Tapeworms from Space can Talk!
Three adult specimens of the tapeworm Hymenolepis nana spoke up today with explanations about where they came from, says the Georgia Department of Public Health. Scientists conclude Tapeworms are bad enough on their own.. The ones from Earth actually get inside people, lay their eggs, [read more...]
The Altamont Music Festival, held in Northern California at the Altamont Raceway in December of 1969, was the lowest point reached during the swing of otherwise successful music events held that year, including Woodstock. [read more...]
That brings us to one of the most amazing uses for hemp: hempcretes. Essentially hemp bricks, these building materials are made by combining the inner core of the hemp plant with [read more…]
The Puzzle: 100 Green-Eyed Dragons
Neurodope would like to introduce a puzzler for your mind-raking pleasure. "You visit a remote desert island inhabited by one hundred very friendly dragons, all of whom have green eyes. They haven't seen a human for many centuries and are very excited about your visit. They show [read more...]
