tDCS is one of the coolest pieces of health/ self improvement technology available today. The US Army and DARPA both currently use tDCS devices to train snipers and drone pilots, and have recorded 2.5x increases in learning rates. This incredible phenomenon is achieved through a very simple device called a tDCS machine.You can buy one called the GoFlow β1 for $99. The tinfoil cap is not included.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Self Stimulation
Dr Mesmer was the first to discover the phenomenon of animal magnetism and since then every once in while new magnetic/electronic devices appear that pretend to sooth pain, improve appetite, depress appetite, improve memory and now to accelerate learning.
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This was the whole secret to Paul Erdos.
Anon.
Koko told him the secret: put one 1.5 volt battery the left ear with the positive inside, and another in the right one but with the positive outside. Wash your hands frequently to discharge excess electrons and contact earth.
Erdos's secret was amphetamines. He once went off of them for a month in order to win a bet. He was able to do so but complained that the progress of math was set back by one month since he got no work done when he was off of the drugs. Amphetamines are now widely given to children who supposedly have "attention deficit disorder" in order to help them focus. It turns out that there is nothing special about those children - amphetamines help the performance of everyone equally - we level the playing field by giving them only to those at the low end.
K
We used benzedrine and other things during the exams in the university. It does help (I gave two years worth exams per year). I also smoked. It is not good for social life.
My daughter missed one question on her Math SAT (out of 54) , which lowered her score by 20 points (on the 200 to 800 point scale). The question that she missed was not particularly hard and well within her knowledge - she must have just lost focus for a second. I wonder if she would not have missed it if she had been medicated? Of course the perfect score would only have been for bragging rights - she still got into the college of her choice.
My daughter would never consider taking drugs of any kind but I could see how an unethical test taker might use them to boost their score. There was a scandal in a Jewish area of NY recently when it was found that some test takers were hiring substitutes to take the test for them. All that was needed was a fake school ID card, easily produced with a computer.
Regarding future Asian domination of science, I have another data point. Yesterday evening I attended an awards dinner at which my daughter received a (small) cash prize in a regional science competition. The region in which we live does not have a particularly large Asian population. Of the 15 female recipients, two ( my daughter and one other Ashkenazi Jewish girl) were not Asian. All the others were either South Asian (Indian) or East Asian (Chinese/Korean). The boys had somewhat more ethnic diversity (even some white goyim though no blacks or latinos) though it was clear that a few of them were classic Asperger's type science nerds lacking in all social skills.
The other striking thing was that the scientists' organization that was presenting the award had a positively geriatric membership. The main presenter was pushing 80. Another one presented from his chair as he was too ill to stand up. These folks belonged in a nursing home and I give them credit for continuing to be active. But it is clear that American science, like so many other areas, has been hollowed out and is in decline. For a while, Wall Street was snatching up the top science grads, so instead of making scientific discoveries they were devising new computer trading strategies - lucrative but not socially useful. Now they make espresso in coffee houses.
K
How did they let the goyim boys in there?
Surely some mistake.
Anon.
No I don't think so. Remember that white Christians are still the majority so even if their average IQ is a little lower there are a lot of them so you'll find some out at the tails. As I mentioned before, a few of them were "damaged goods" on the order of Erdös's friend Sidon - their mathematical brilliance was achieved at the expense of the other parts of their brain. One had such an irregular gait that I thought he had cerebral palsy.
K
Seriously, though, I do suspect that most of the really talented (non-Jewish) whites are not from deeply observant families, and probably the same is true of Jewish talent.
There's probably a bunch of data on this, but I intuit it's likely that de facto atheism correlates with G, quite independent of ethnicity.
Anon.
In America it is not unusual to find people who are both deeply religious and intelligent. They just don't go into academia or oher areas where atheism is the norm.
K
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