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Author Archives: Caspar
I wrote a novel
I wrote a novel. There are some drugs in it but not so many. More probably went into making it. The original idea came to me as a result of taking mushrooms and a lot of caffeine was involved in … Continue reading
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Drugs Quote #022 – Frank Zappa wasn’t on drugs.
The general assumption is that rock stars who don’t take drugs have either taken so many they’ve got bored or ill that they were forced to stop, or they are just a bit boring. As an exception that proves the … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Experience, Music, Quotes
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Kaggle causality hacking contest
Big data is already a lot like magic. Based on your spending habits Mastercard are supposed to know that you are getting a divorce before you do, computers are better at predicting good vintages than wine experts, facebook and google … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Science, Uncategorized
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Using search data to find drug side effects
Along the same lines as Google Flu Trends, researchers at Microsoft, Stanford and Columbia University are investigating whether search data can be used to find interactions between drugs. They recently found an interaction.Using automated software tools to examine queries by … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Psychopharmacology, Technology
Tagged Interactions Between Drugs, Recreational Drugs
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And now for something completely different..
It’s… the Baby Laughter project. I’m not entirely sure why I haven’t mentioned this before but readers of this blog might be interested in one of my other projects. In my day job, I am a baby scientist at Birkbeck … Continue reading
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An antidote to drunkeness?
UCLA led researchers have developed a “pill” that uses two enzymes to mimic the action of the human liver in fighting alcohol intoxication.In a discovery that could derail the popular “Hangover” movie franchise, a team of researchers led by UCLA … Continue reading
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Your Brain on Alcohol – Explained
Here’s a wonderfully little video about what alcohol does to your brain. It is the latest in a sequence of short science videos made by ASAP Science. A previous video explained Marijuana. This one covers a lot of things very … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Brain, Experience, Films, Psychopharmacology
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Announcing the uMotif Parkinson’s Tracker
Apologies that the site has been a bit quiet. We have been busy on a new project. A smartphone app for tracking Parkinson’s disease. A year ago I gave a talk about the Boozerlyzer at the European Quantified Self conference. … Continue reading
Toxicity of drugs
This diagram illustrates the legal classification of drugs has very little to do with how lethal they are. DEA Drug Schedules (2004) | TruthTheory. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet … Continue reading
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Buddy can you spare a dime bag?
Psychopharmacologist Ethan Perlstein wants your help to build his own meth lab. He needs $25,000 to get started and has turned to the internet to help him out. Using the science crowdsourcing site Rocket Hub he and his lab colleagues … Continue reading
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Tagged breaking bad, Ethan Perlstein, Meth Lab, Science Crowdsourcing
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