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Just Dope
Eugene Morrow · Apr 03, 2007
How does your brain motivate you to seek food and sex? How about read this article? Part three of an ongoing series on chemicals and perception. Mild dopamine release guaranteed.
Love Potion No. 9
Eugene Morrow · Mar 22, 2007
Modern neuroscience is revolutionizing the way we think about emotions. But can we really control complex feelings with simple chemicals? (The second in a four-part series.)
Pipe Dreams
Eugene Morrow · Mar 13, 2007
The idea that marijuana alters perception in an “unnatural” way is misguided. The active ingredient, THC, simply exploits existing pathways within the brain — in much the same way as your body’s own chemical messengers — to change the way you perceive the world around you. (First in a four-part series about drugs and perception.)
Beating Polio
Eugene Morrow · Mar 06, 2007
Wild poliovirus may soon join smallpox in extinction. But challenges to eradication still exist. The greatest of these, it seems, is complacency.
Changing the Fight Against Cancer
Jeremy Davidson · Feb 19, 2007
A new frontier in the war against cancer has opened in the labs of the University. Researchers have developed a new anti-cancer drug based on…
Hot Commodities
Eugene Morrow · Feb 12, 2007
Indonesia recently stopped sending samples of the H5N1 avian influenza virus to the World Health Organization, with the intent to sell them to an American research company instead. This is further evidence of a disturbing trend in medicinal science.
Time Travel is Possible. Well, Sort of.
Jeremy Davidson · Feb 05, 2007
Is time travel possible? The concept of time as the fourth-dimension is one of the most misunderstood in all of physics. While writers like H.G….
Spending Green
Eugene Morrow · Jan 29, 2007
It’s official: Capitol Hill has been moved to a Southern climate zone. As politicians join with activists to counter global warming, spending a little extra money at home could help win a greener future.
