Category: Video
Brain Candy, a film by Toronto's sketch comedy troupe Kids in the Hall, is a satirical take on drug development. A scientist creates an antidepressant (Gleemonex) that evokes the happiest memory of the consumer, recreating that joy in the present. Gleemonex becomes a big success, until it all goes horribly...
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Category: Drugs
Fortune has announced the year's 101 Dumbest Moments in Business, including Prozac for dogs. "Thank God. We've been so worried since Lucky dyed his hair jet black and started listening to the Smiths." "Eli Lilly wins FDA approval to put Prozac into chewable, beef-flavored pills to treat separation anxiety...
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Category: Drugs
This will probably never be made into an anti-drug ad campaign, but I can't imagine a stronger deterrent. Angel's Trumpet is a flower that contains scopolamine and other alkaloids. It's known as a "biogenic drug" and presumed by naive recreational drug users to be harmless because it's a plant....
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Category: Video
Anti-drug ad parody that's also an anti-drug ad itself. This is Your Brain on Heroin: Any Questions?....
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Category: Humor
An effective new treatment for anxiety and depression: large sums of cash.
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Category: Webcomics
A depiction of delusional parasitosis in Dave Kellett's webcomic Sheldon. DP, a fixed delusion in which one believes s/he is infested with bugs despite no evidence, was famously described in Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly. Superblogger and psychologist Vaughan Bell wrote a nice article on the subject, check...
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Category: that other kind of psychology
Which way is this dancer rotating? Clockwise or Counterclockwise? According to this silly test about an equally silly concept, you are right brained if you see the dancer rotating clockwise and blah blah blah... etc etc. yeah whatever. Can you make the dancer rotate the other way? It really is...
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