Overclocking the brain with common household ingredients

[wombat_socho]

There was an interesting link on Jerry Pournelle's Mail page which discussed, not to be excessively blunt, breeding for intelligence with particular emphasis on the Ashkenazi Jews. (Because everybody knows us Sephardim are shiftless and lazy, LOL) Most of the discussion revolves around group-specific genetic diseases which are all basically

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[harvey_rrit]

Walt Freeman kinda skimmed over the champ:

Nicotine.

(Possibly due to a morbid fear of torches and pitchforks, I dunno.)

[wombat_socho]

I think of nicotine as primarily an insect repellent (although leeches aren't insects, technically) but there's no question that it helps focus the mind, especially when you're swilling coffee at the same time. Now if we could just get nicotine patches declared over-the-counter drugs...

[harvey_rrit]

They are. They sell them in boxes of 21 at CostCo.

[wombat_socho]

Really? I thought you needed a prescription for them. Maybe that's only here in Virginia.