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I've just found a very nice EU based alternative to Substack called Steady.Page; I've set up a holding page there called Cognitive Republic: you can sign up via email at:
https://steady.page/en/cognitive-republic/posts
#substackwriters #substack #notsubstack #alternative #writer #CognitiveChallenge #cognitiverepublic
If you'd like to help a student out with a very simple and short questionnaire **Very Short Questionnaire on Attitudes towards Interrogation**
please go to:
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Latest stack is up, featuring:
The new GLP1 weight loss drugs; Fraud and Alzheimer’s disease; Rotten Data; Irony; Patti Smith; Worst song of all time; Megalopolis; Thunderstruck
The GLP1 weight loss drugs offering new hope for Parkinson’s treatment
Beyond diabetes: Exploring lixisenatide’s neuroprotective effects; some thoughts on why evolution has not finely tuned our GLP 1 system
https://www.brainpizza.com/p/the-glp1-weight-loss-drugs-offering
#glp1 #diabetes #t2d #parkinsonsdisease #lixisenatide #brainhealth
Talking Heads: The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds Kindle Edition is on special offer atm - £5.90 - bargain!
The Other Hand: Who is J D Vance?
We've read 'Hillbilly Elegy', so you don't have to. And if you listen in, you definitely won't need to.
#jdvance #hillbillyelegy #veep #vp #veepstakes #usaelection2024
Is JDV really a Hillbilly?
Interesting reads, August 2024 edition
August books, Hans Eysenck & scientific fraud; More LLM Scepticism; Useless tech; ‘Life histories are not just fast or slow’; William Calley; Galway; Conspiracy Theorists might not be sincere
https://www.brainpizza.com/p/interesting-reads-august-2024-edition
There’s lots of crazy talk on cognition-enhancing drugs that Biden will allegedly be tanked on for the forthcoming presidential debate. I’ve spent many years working on the neuroscience of cognition and memory, including on drugs that might enhance cognition or that might attentuate dementia. There’s a lot to say: but simply put, if such drugs exist, they are not yet known to neuroscience. Smart Pills: There is huge media and other interest in what are sometimes called smart pills (nootropics). A few minutes searching on the internet will uncover stories of students and others using modafinil and some other compounds to enhance their own cognitive function. And coffee drinkers have felt the boost you get from a dose of caffeine – you become more alert, more focused, less fatigued – at least for a while. And certainly, you perform complex tasks better when you’re alert, compared to when you’re fatigued – but the correct way to think about this is comparing the effect of caffeine to when you’re well-rested, after a good night’s sleep. Smart pills don’t work – really, they don’t – not in any meaningful, long-term way. They may well help you fight fatigue, staving off sleep for a while. Users of smart pills confuse wakefulness-promotion and cognitive enhancement; not feeling sleepy because you’ve stayed up all night is not the same as improving cognition when you’re not fatigued. Smart pills are not a shortcut. And we are still some distance from a very effective disease-modifying drugs for Alzheimer’s disease. More at: https://www.brainpizza.com/p/dementia-and-joe-biden https://www.brainpizza.com/p/brain-training-bad-news-but-some https://www.brainpizza.com/i/94919922/alzheimers-disease https://www.brainpizza.com/i/73585582/some-optimism-on-alzheimers-disease-at-last https://www.brainpizza.com/p/where-is-my-memory?utm_source=publication-search https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=tVnIUCUAAAAJ&view_op=list_works
'Let's have three meetings at the same time to discuss it...' ('No, let's not, thanks') Cognitive shredding courtesy of our tech overlords
https://www.brainpizza.com/p/lets-have-three-meetings-at-the-same
I'd be quite happy to keep Google Podcasts (it works!), and never use generative AI-infused Google Search (hah!).
Keep one; bin the other.
