Nanashi

I've been experimenting with various nootropics lately, and wanted some way to have a frame of reference as to whether they work or not. So I put together this little tool: http://2pih.com/reactiontest/ It's pretty rudimentary for the time being, but I'm definitely open to feedback on 1. Ways to improve...

Some quick background, I am putting together a non-profit whose goal is to provide objective, rational career guidance to high school/college students, with the aim to solve what I see as a pretty big problem in the American educational system: our current career guidance is more focused on how to...

Note: This article underwent a significant revision on 5/28/2015. Thank you to estimator for all your feedback. The most important meta-skill that anyone can learn is how to learn skills. With practice, you learn how to pick up new skills as they are needed, which is infinitely (quite literally) more...

This isn't a trick question, nor do I have a particular answer in mind. Tomorrow, all of your memories are going to be wiped. There is a crucial piece of information that you need to make sure you remember, and more specifically, you need to be very confident you were...

Information security is a pretty big passion of mine; I don't think someone needs to have "something to hide" in order to make use of digital signing, encryption, etc. Another passion of mine is making things easier for other people to do. I've written a couple of tools that I...

http://www.businessinsider.com/valery-spiridonov-head-transplant-2015-4 Don't really have much to add beyond this. It's pretty awesome stuff though. The fact that this is even within the realm of possibility makes the argument for cryonics that much stronger.

Hi all, I put this calibration test together this morning. It pulls from a trivia API of over 150,000 questions so you should be able to take this many, many times before you start seeing repeats. http://www.2pih.com/caltest.php A few notes: 1. The questions are "Jeopardy" style questions so the wording...