Monthly Archives: December 2008

Needed: Roderick Russell Street Team in Maine

I’ll be coming to Maine in February of ‘09 for a series of shows at the Winthrop Performing Arts Center and the Oddfellow Theater (Turner, ME) and I need your help!
If you’re a fan of the hypnosis show, the sword swallowing show, or want to see either for the first time, and you want to [...]

Calling Aldous Huxley

Jeffrey J. Kripal, professor and chair of religious studies at Rice University, gives a delightful little treatment of Aldous Huxley in the December, 12th 2008 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education. More interestingly, he states that “a kind of Huxley renaissance is under way” in response to the current political and religious climate.
What [...]

Responsible Approach to Cognitive Enhancement

This weeks issue of Nature includes a commentary entitled Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy which discusses the “growing demand for cognitive enhancement” through the use of pharmaceuticals and outlines a strategy for intelligently, morally and safely incorporating smart drugs into modern society.
I am no stranger to nootropics. Though I can [...]