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Comment Was it the chicken or the egg? (Score 1) 358

If we take into account that pot eases the way in presence of pain and some cases of mental disorder it makes some evolutive or even epigenetic sense that the brain ask more for some drug-induced settlement in some stressful situations. Not saying that it has to be that way, but it certainly makes sense. Of course pot, especially in case of severe usage, can cause brain and consciusnees alterations, so it is certainly double-edge when it comes to mental disseases. For funding, research and peer finding please refer to the non-profit Aging Portfolio.

Comment A cure: cerebral dead! (Score 1) 76

It is pretty funny that so much money is expend every year and so litle significative advances are reached. Before the backslash...I agree some significative improvements are reached after a thousand small steps, but what I want emphasize is the litle direct attack to the problem at task. We have bird flu and we start to research about it, we want to know every litle detail, we believe that if we can fullfil the database of knoledge about it the cure will appear by miracle in our faces. I agree that knowing more a more may increase the chances of finding a solution, but what about a direct attack? This is what I know about the dissease and now I'm gonna spend days, weeks, months thinking how to solve the issue, what technical or technological improvements may achieve it. Unforunatedly research to often correlates to re-search, rere-search, rerere-search, others may find familiar sampling, resampling, reresampling, pippeting, up,down,updown...we are lazy when it comes to think but can spend a ton of minutes doing repetitive tasks...

Comment Water (Score 1) 78

If we consider life as a tight defined set of molecules interacting in some medium and enclosed in a space we start to realize that life in a water-poor enviorement may not be very easy. Can a different liquid medium be used. Gas? Completly solid? I guess an enclosed space is certainly neccesary and a medium that allows interactions too. There may be life but probably very constrained due to enviromental constraints. For funding, research and peer finding please refer to the non-profit Aging Portfolio.

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