Richard Sprague

Count me in

The new August 2008 issue of Wired describes the Personal Genome Project, an upcoming ambitious attempt to collect DNA and more from 100,000 individuals.  Of course I immediately signed up!  Funny to see that my hero, Steven Pinker, also signed up as one of the first 10.

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Biohacking and Shifting Science

Exploring the historical and contemporary shifts in scientific paradigms, and the phenomenon of biohacking.

Zocdoc vs OpenTable

The idea behind ZocDoc is brilliant: a modern, super-easy web site that lets you book a doctor appointment as easily as OpenTable lets you book restaurant reservations. ZocDoc…

Yup, statins make me smarter

After a fifteen day test , I’ve concluded that 20mg of simvastatin daily has a major effect on my results on Seth Robert’s Brain Reaction Time (BRT) test.…

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