About Eric Matzner

This article published last week, claims to be the first to use r/nootropics as a data source and is focused on the “not-so-productive, not-so-effective encounters with enhancement substances.” Their …
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I get asked all the time about what I take for mitochondria. While I don’t have the time right now to write out what each does and how it works, …
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When I was shopping for a deadstock, surplus Russian gas mask to go with my Halloween costume, I didn’t think it would matter if it was functional or not. How …
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Speed reading plugins and apps seem to come and go as fast as the words do at you in RSVP reading. I am currently using a combination of two extensions …
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“DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS” – an anti-troll manifesto by Eric Matzner

I will not feed the trolls. I do not owe a troll …
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“Humanity will not wait millions of years until Mother Nature will eventually hand it a functionally better new brain, like an anniversary gift. On …
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I love this quote from a recent Elon Musk email to his employees. In referring to how precise the design tolerances of the Model 3 should be, Elon says that …
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Cognitive decline strikes in many different ways, including pathologies such as Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), but in the end many ways of describing how the brain has declined are related to …
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I am in the middle of doing research on peptides used for healing a physical injury and the best solution is usually found within a community dedicated to that topic …
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Plants make chemicals called flavonoids and polyphenols to play roles within themselves including protection from stressors and predators. They are found naturally in the human diet and are known …
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When ABC News reached out to me, I was concerned they were going to do a hit piece on nootropics, but they did a very well thought out and researched …
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This interview is what I consider to be my best podcast appearance to date, a conversation at the UploadVR’s VIP GDC mixer with , led to me rehashing the information …
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Last month I was featured in a story for NPR’s KQED San Francisco affiliate in part of a series on biohacking, they wanted to see what a typical day or …
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I am writing this as a quick article that I hope at some point to come back and fix up, but the bottom line is this: Vitamin B-12 is essential …
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There is a lot of talk going around these days related to fearing AI’s, many of these discussions in the mainstream were spurred by comments Elon Musk made relating to …
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This is a talk I gave in August 2014 at PyGotham, titled “How I Taught My 10-Year-Old Brother to Love Programming (and Python).”

(Note: the slides are somewhat out of …
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This week Google is out with the announcement that Google X is working on a system of nanoparticles that can be an early detector of diseases. Many times the diseases …
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Ben Howard – Hideaway (Kiesza Cover) Vijay & Sofia Zlatko Remix

Sir Sly – You Haunt Me SoySauce Edition

Vanic X K.Flay – Can’t Sleep

José González – Heartbeats Filous & …
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While robots that are easier to program and integrate along side humans are spreading rapidly, they are still missing some sensors that can allow for the randomness associated real world …
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Recently, two discoveries have been announced that lend a lot of credence to theories about life existing outside of our solar system and the abundance of the building blocks of …
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