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conservatism is the inability to put the pieces together, romney buys florida, black and silver textures wallpaper
How anti-tax zealots fail to see the connection between reasonable taxes and the overall health of society. Beyond some point, there seems to be little gain in satisfaction from bolstering your private spending. When mansions grow to 15,000 square feet from 10,000, for instance, the primary effect is merely to raise the bar that defines [...]
brain boosting may shift the way we think of intelligence, happy birthday FDR, sustainable architecture
The ethics of brain boosting The idea of a simple, cheap and widely available device that could boost brain function sounds too good to be true. Yet promising results in the lab with emerging ‘brain stimulation’ techniques, though still very preliminary, have prompted Oxford neuroscientists to team up with leading ethicists at the University to [...]