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    <title>What Is Campbell’s Law? (Diane Ravitch)</title>
    <dc:date>2017-02-02T01:19:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://dianeravitch.net/2012/05/25/what-is-campbells-law/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" “The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.”  "]]></description>
<dc:subject>quantified-self brain-race academia</dc:subject>
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    <title>Nootroo’s Eric Matzner Says His ‘Smart Drug’ Will Make You Sharper, Faster (Olga Khazan, The Atlantic)</title>
    <dc:date>2016-09-30T16:46:48+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" At the end of the Meetup event, Matzner put his Nootroo-fueled lifestyle to the test via a meditation competition. (“How HARD can you relax?” the event page had inquired.) Wearing EEG headbands, pairs of contestants would meditate while the audience tried to distract them with heckling. The devices would measure electrical activity emitted by the meditators’ brains and project scores, based on their levels of calm, on a giant screen. Whoever remained in a meditative state the longest would win. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>brain-race fucking-Silicon-Valley</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:901f9a690528/</dc:identifier>
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    <title>Noo in Town (David B. Johnson | The Baffler)</title>
    <dc:date>2016-08-13T21:06:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thebaffler.com/blog/noo-in-town-johnson</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" There you have it: an Orwellian 2.0 vision of the future. Only instead of a boot crushing a human face forever, this one features a bio-hacked worker covered in Quantitative Self wearables, hyperactive and hyperfocused, thanks to nootropics, operating on minimal sleep, food, and breaks, working at a hamster-wheel stand-up desk forever. "]]></description>
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    <title>'Hacking' the brain: Silicon Valley entrepreneurs turn to fasting and 'smart drugs' (Marisa Kendall, San Jose Mercury News)</title>
    <dc:date>2016-07-10T02:10:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_30109953/hacking-brain-silicon-valley-entrepreneurs-turn-fasting-and</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Some use vitamins or other nutritional supplements known as nootropics or “smart drugs” to improve their cognitive function. Others have a more expansive view of brain-enhancers, taking off-label prescription drugs, small doses of LSD or Russian pharmaceuticals not approved for consumption in the U.S. Like-minded entrepreneurs exchange dosage tips via online message boards such as Reddit, which has almost 73,000 readers on its Nootropics thread. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>brain-race fucking-Silicon-Valley</dc:subject>
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    <title>Fair play? How 'smart drugs' are making workplaces more competitive (Barbara Sahakian | The Conversation)</title>
    <dc:date>2016-07-01T15:48:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2016-07-fair-smart-drugs-workplaces-competitive.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" In a recent review paper, we found that people are increasingly using performance-enhancing drugs for common tasks ranging from sitting examinations to giving presentations and conducting important negotiations. These "cognitive enhancers" – such as antidepressants, beta blockers (used to treat heart conditions or anxiety) or "smart drugs" – can boost energy and mood, helping us to perform better with less sleep. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>brain-race</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:19827f1e2d8c/</dc:identifier>
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    <title>Sleep tech could set off a biological class war (Ian Kar | Quartz)</title>
    <dc:date>2016-01-24T00:02:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://qz.com/599797/sleep-tech-could-set-off-a-biological-class-war/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Some experts, like Marcelo Rinesi of think tank the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, say that devices or chemicals that let us live and work with less sleep will be developed over the next 20 years.

" The problem? Only the rich will be able to afford it, and they can use it to spend more time working, giving the wealthy yet another advantage. “The social and economic impact is going to be huge. It’s going to create a lot of resentment and envy. We are not used to wealthy people having a completely different biological experience of being alive,” Rinesi told the site. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>sleep stratification brain-race</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.vice.com/read/the-complicated-business-of-selling-smart-drugs-809">
    <title>The Complicated Business of Selling Smart Drugs (Dale Eisinger | Vice)</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-07T18:40:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.vice.com/read/the-complicated-business-of-selling-smart-drugs-809</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Cady is in the business of selling nootropics, an amorphous classification of pills and powders that users say improve memory, focus, coordination, and spatial awareness. Still unregulated by the FDA, these products supposedly stimulate the production of the neurotransmitters choline and acetylcholine. Some products Cady sells, like phenibut, promise to reduce anxiety in users. Others, such as piracetem, noopept, and synephrine, are supposed to boost your mental capacity. Others still, such as adrafinil, are analogs of prescription drugs (in adrafinil's case, the wakefulness-promoting agent modafinil, sold in the US as Alertec), meaning that they have the same or nearly the same effects as their prescription equivalent.  "]]></description>
<dc:subject>brain-race</dc:subject>
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    <title>Why College Students Use Cognitive Enhancers: It’s Not Only about Grades (Susan Gilbert | Hastings Center Bioethics Forum)</title>
    <dc:date>2015-06-03T15:08:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Bioethicsforum/Post.aspx?id=7446&amp;blogid=140</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" The students in the study said that they used stimulants for three purposes: to help with studying, to avoid procrastination, and to make studying more pleasurable. “What seems to be enhanced is not so much performance or results as it is the experience of studying and thus the self-image as successful and productive students,” the researchers conclude. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>brain-race</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://m.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/04/27/090427fa_fact_talbot?currentPage=all">
    <title>The underground world of neuroenhancing drugs (Margaret Talbot, New Yorker) (2009 Apr 27)</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-01T15:43:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://m.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/04/27/090427fa_fact_talbot?currentPage=all</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>brain-race</dc:subject>
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    <title>Managing The Risks Of Taking Adderall To Enhance Work Performance (Todd Essig | Forbes)</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-01T15:12:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/toddessig/2013/12/06/managing-the-risks-of-taking-adderall-to-enhance-work-performance/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>brain-race</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/parenting/2014/04/29/if-you-think-preschools-bad-just-wait-until-kindergarten/?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss">
    <title>‘If You Think Preschool’s Bad, Just Wait Until Kindergarten’ (Judy Batalion | New York Times)</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-29T16:55:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/parenting/2014/04/29/if-you-think-preschools-bad-just-wait-until-kindergarten/?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Kindergartens required entrance exams and had even fewer places. People applied to schools around the city, schlepping children across neighborhoods to public, private, gifted, talented, traditional, alternative, faith-based and subject-specialty programs. Parents commonly sent their 4-year-olds for test prep, Mandarin camp, private tutoring. “I hope you picked a preschool with good exmissions,” she said. “I didn’t sleep for weeks.” "]]></description>
<dc:subject>brain-race stratification</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/24/florida-elementary-school-students-soda-tests">
    <title>Florida elementary school stops giving students soda before tests (AP)</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-24T17:45:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/24/florida-elementary-school-students-soda-tests</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Irwin said Principal Kathryn Eward started serving soda and trail mix about 10 years ago, after reading about its positive effect on students taking tests. "

It is by the dew of mountain that thoughts acquire speed, the test acquires marks, the marks become a passing.]]></description>
<dc:subject>brain-race</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:750a76027283/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/the-harsh-reality-of-how-test-driven-curriculum-affects-kids/2013/09/18/1d42e340-20a9-11e3-ad1a-1a919f2ed890_blog.html?wprss=rss_national">
    <title>The ‘harsh reality’ of how test-driven curriculum affects kids (Valerie Strauss | Washington Post)</title>
    <dc:date>2013-09-19T00:57:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/the-harsh-reality-of-how-test-driven-curriculum-affects-kids/2013/09/18/1d42e340-20a9-11e3-ad1a-1a919f2ed890_blog.html?wprss=rss_national</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" I’ve been contacted by thousands of teachers, too afraid to speak publicly, who tell me stories of horror from their classrooms, and what these test are doing to their teaching styles and to their  students. Stories of kindergarten children who begin crying when the teacher takes out her timer because they know it is yet another local exam they will be administered. Stories of special education students begging through tears for their teacher to PLEASE just help them to understand a word they do not know so they can answer a question on the ELA assessment. Or the third-grade teacher who herself broke down crying when telling me that she feels responsible for the abuse to her students when administering hours upon hours of developmentally inappropriate tests to seven year olds who are being set up to fail. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>brain-race</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/education/seeking-academic-edge-teenagers-abuse-stimulants.html?_r=2&amp;pagewanted=1&amp;hp">
    <title>Seeking Academic Edge, Teenagers Abuse Stimulants (Alan Schwarz | New York Times)</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-12T14:56:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/education/seeking-academic-edge-teenagers-abuse-stimulants.html?_r=2&amp;pagewanted=1&amp;hp</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>brain-race</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:9d9290a57852/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090930194300.htm">
    <title>Increase In 'Academic Doping' Could Spark Routine Urine Tests For Exam Students (press release @ ScienceDaily)</title>
    <dc:date>2009-10-05T03:27:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090930194300.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The impact of these drugs is as yet "modest," says Mr Cakic, but more potent versions are in the pipeline. "The possibility of purchasing 'smartness in a bottle' is likely to have broad appeal to students" seeking to gain an advantage in an increasingly competitive world, says Mr Cakic."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>brain-race</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:9b744ea667e0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.rediff.com/cms/print.jsp?docpath=//sports/2004/aug/29oly.htm">
    <title>Should the X-men have a go? (Ellie Tzortzi, Reuters)</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-16T21:42:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.rediff.com/cms/print.jsp?docpath=//sports/2004/aug/29oly.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" "When I first did my survey in 1983, I was shocked to see that out of 198 world-class athletes, 52 percent would be willing to give up their life for five years of an undefeated run of wins," Goldman told Reuters. "I have since repeated the survey a number of times and the number comes out about the same, which is shocking in that some of the athletes are only 16 years old. To be willing to die at 21 is a serious psychological mindset that must be addressed." "
]]></description>
<dc:subject>brain-race</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:6b5ad087469f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.biopoliticaltimes.org/article.php?id=4718">
    <title>Brain Drugs (Pete Shanks @ Center for Genetics and Society)</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-16T21:39:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.biopoliticaltimes.org/article.php?id=4718</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[""Cognitive enhancement" for willing adults is undeniably appealing; so are superpowers and Batmobiles. Let's at least hope that deeper and broader discussions will spread a note of caution and common sense. Fantasies are no basis for public policy."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>brain-race</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:d722448865b0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/may/01/body-enhancement-cosmetic-surgery-genetics">
    <title>The pleasures and pitfalls of body enhancement (Andy Miah @ Guardian)</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-01T21:04:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/may/01/body-enhancement-cosmetic-surgery-genetics</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" We should welcome with open arms the rich possibilities of technologically enhancing our bodies. Just so long as we don't all end up looking, and thinking, and acting the same "
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<dc:subject>brain-race</dc:subject>
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    <title>Brain Gain (Margaret Talbot, New Yorker)</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-23T15:27:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/04/27/090427fa_fact_talbot</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Though a majority said that such drugs should not be made available to children who had no diagnosed medical condition, a third admitted that they would feel pressure to give “smart drugs” to their kids if they learned that other parents were doing so. Such competitive anxieties are already being felt in the workplace."
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<dc:subject>brain-race transhumanism</dc:subject>
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    <title>Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy (Greely et al. @ Nature)</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-08T16:59:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v456/n7223/full/456702a.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Society must respond to the growing demand for cognitive enhancement. That response must start by rejecting the idea that 'enhancement' is a dirty word, argue Henry Greely and colleagues."
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<dc:subject>brain-race</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Bioethicsforum/Post.aspx?id=3142&amp;blogid=140">
    <title>Cognitive Enhancement on Campus: Taking Competition Seriously (Benjamin Gould @ Bioethics Forum)</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-22T15:26:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Bioethicsforum/Post.aspx?id=3142&amp;blogid=140</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The authors seem to have an unrealistic view about the role and prominence of competition in college. ... Increasing numbers of students are going to graduate school, and it is not uncommon for top programs to admit fewer than 10% of their applicants. Competition for plumb jobs is equally fierce, and the current economic downturn is only making matters worse."
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<dc:subject>brain-race academia</dc:subject>
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    <title>Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy (Greely et al. @ Nature)</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-16T19:54:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/456702a.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this article, we propose actions that will help society accept the benefits of enhancement, given appropriate research and evolved regulation. Prescription drugs are regulated as such not for their enhancing properties but primarily for considerations of safety and potential abuse. Still, cognitive enhancement has much to offer individuals and society, and a proper societal response will involve making enhancements available while managing their risks."
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<dc:subject>brain-race</dc:subject>
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    <title>Going to work on Smart Drugs (Jason Kirby, Maclean's)</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-07T22:47:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.macleans.ca/science/health/article.jsp?content=20081001_98115_98115</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Now a report entitled "When the Boss Turns Pusher" in last month's issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics warns that some employers may soon pressure workers to take brain boosters as a way to improve their performance. The report argues legislation is urgently needed to protect workers' rights before the practice of healthy people using smart drugs becomes more common."
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<dc:subject>brain-race</dc:subject>
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