In 1995, NASA did spiders experiment. Caffeine is a siginificant impulsivity trigger. :)
replyhttps://rarehistoricalphotos.com/nasa-spiders-drugs-experime...
LSD has unconnected strands in the air. I guess this is expected.
replyThe LSD and sleeping pills were not in the original study I believe. That might be an artists representation of the image at the bottom of the original study, which I remember showed the results in a single row.
replyWarning: those photos in the dot-com website are negative images, not the original black-on-white. Lousy with animated ad banners, too.
replyhttps://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20100033433/downloads/20...
Don't ask me why some blogger posted the PDF in 2013, and also don't ask me how English Wikipedia editors determined that a Wordpress blog is a "Reliable Secondary Source". I did locate the original on NASA's own website. Public Domain (USGov).
Thanks for the time capsule. Boy that’s a lot of ads (live video on a computer! Wow!).
replyThe poor marijuana spider tried really hard
Nice web, Mr. Crack spider.
reply> They didn’t test caffeine in isolation
replyBut they did test both caffeinated and uncaffeinated coffee, and found the same effects in both, indicating that the effect is caused by something in coffee other than the caffeine
Doesn't decaf also contain caffeine, just a lot less of it?
replyTypical extraction yield is 18-20%. For a 20g dose that's 4g of material consumed, or about 30 individual beans.
replyI wonder if you could find similar effects with 4g or broccoli sprouts, or garlic, or ginger, or cumin seed, shiitake mushroom, seaweed, soursop leaf, or...