Ritalin Links

Artifacts From the Future: Happy Meal 2013 — Vat-Grown Kobe Beef and Flintstones Ritalin (Wired News)

A Happy Meal lunch spread in 2013 is complete with a personal McFryer and assorted dipping sauces from Honey Mustard to BrainSpike and Endorphin Rush.

'No one told me about the risks' (The New Zealand Herald)

In the first 9 weeks of her pregnancy before she knew she was pregnant, Karyn Tunnicliff celebrated her own and a friend's 21st birthdays.

Chez Pazienza: One Last Look Back: The 10 Most Ridiculous, Shameful, or Generally Unfortunate People and Events of 2008 (HuffingtonPost)

Well, it could've been worse. As 2008 mercifully ends, we're left to ponder a year in which the real and the surreal were pretty much indistinguishable, where insanity actually became tedium.

Popping Smart Pills: The Case for Cognitive Enhancement (Time Magazine)

In a recent editorial in Nature, a group of bioethicists argue for using stimulants to enhance cognitive performance

Let students buy brain-boosting drugs such as Ritalin 'over the counter' says academic (Daily Mail: World News)

Students should be allowed to take brain-boosting drugs such as Ritalin, a leading academic has claimed.