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Aug 23, 2026
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9 min read
By the number of times it shows up in brain health and cognitive performance ads and articles, everyone wants to "rewire" their brain. Doing it is neither a quick hack, nor complicated. Here's how.
Aug 16, 2026
8 min read
Counting the top ten list up to #2 this week: Phosphatidylserine. One mans insult is another's triumph of humane progress. Who's neurotransmitters are stronger?
Aug 9, 2026
The art of noticing is a high performance habit practiced by scientists, athletes, monks and working professionals like us. We both create and are created by our environment in a closed loop. Here's how to practice Focused Attention on the Present in Space-Time (FAPST) for high performing focus, learning and creativity, without feeling loopy.
Aug 2, 2026
7 min read
Tea, humankind's first nootropic, began as a medicinal herb in China in the 2nd millennium BC. Camellia sinensis leaves for green, black, and white teas have an amino acid, L-Theanine. Little wonder so many independent inventions originated from China.
Jul 26, 2026
6 min read
Our contemporary bias for empirical evidence gives relief to thousands of years of superstition and its abuses. But today, those of us capable of having two different kinds of thoughts at once can keep the baby's empirical evidence while (metaphorically) throwing out the swampy tropical ayurvedic bathwater bacopa monnieri grew from.
