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Showing posts with label random. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
A visual snippet of life
Best way to start a morning. :)LoL. No, the next pic isn't part of breakfast, just happened to see it and take a snap of it. A flower that looks like birds having a meeting. Pretty amazing.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
"Please Submit Your Urine Sample Here"
Attached to the bottom of our official university exam slip is a little notice to present your student ID along with the exam slip. If this article in the BBC is anything to go by, it could soon read like this.
"b) Kindly present your Student ID and Fresh Urine Sample along with this Exam Slip. "
Apparently, there are drugs out there that can be used as a quick fix for poor memory and alertness and there are actually people out there using them. Scientifically, these drugs are also known as cognitive enhancers.
Do these constitute and unfair advantage? The dudes at the UK National Academy for academic sciences seem to think so. A scenario foreseen is one in which we will need regulations and testing to ban the use of these drugs amongst the 'normal' population to maintain fairness in examinations and testing.
One of the dudes, Sir Gabriel Horn likened the emergence and usage of these brain enhancing drugs to the usage of performance enhancing drugs in sports. He's probably right
on that. Fact is that anything that will give people an edge over their peers is going to be in high demand in this super competitive society.
So if after this article, there's a sharp leap in the official number of people classified with mental problems, we know why.
Oh and for those of you who are asking, where can I get this stuff or what is it called? Nope, I'm not telling you. Don't want you ending up as druggies. (Or rather, I'm not sharing the good stuff with you guys. :P ) A hint is the stuff they use to treat Alzheimer's and ADD.
"b) Kindly present your Student ID and Fresh Urine Sample along with this Exam Slip. "
Apparently, there are drugs out there that can be used as a quick fix for poor memory and alertness and there are actually people out there using them. Scientifically, these drugs are also known as cognitive enhancers.
Do these constitute and unfair advantage? The dudes at the UK National Academy for academic sciences seem to think so. A scenario foreseen is one in which we will need regulations and testing to ban the use of these drugs amongst the 'normal' population to maintain fairness in examinations and testing.
One of the dudes, Sir Gabriel Horn likened the emergence and usage of these brain enhancing drugs to the usage of performance enhancing drugs in sports. He's probably right
on that. Fact is that anything that will give people an edge over their peers is going to be in high demand in this super competitive society.
So if after this article, there's a sharp leap in the official number of people classified with mental problems, we know why.
Oh and for those of you who are asking, where can I get this stuff or what is it called? Nope, I'm not telling you. Don't want you ending up as druggies. (Or rather, I'm not sharing the good stuff with you guys. :P ) A hint is the stuff they use to treat Alzheimer's and ADD.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Did You Know?
i) The earth has two holes at the top and bottom.
ii) Viewed from on top in Google Earth, it looks like a giant eyeball.
lol. Apparently they clip the sat images at both poles. So all that's displayed there is a BIG black hole.
Behold the eye-ball.
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