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• Smart drugs 'should be allowed’ - “If socioeconomic inequalities in education are readily tolerated by society, then it would be hypocritical to apply this criterion selectively to nootropics and not to other performance enhancing strategies.”
• Increase in 'academic doping' could spark routine urine tests for exam students - "It is apparent that the failures and inconsistencies inherent in anti doping policy in sport will be mirrored in academia unless a reasonable and realistic approach to the issue of nootropics is adopted."
  
• Scientists develop nasal spray that improves memory
• NYC Man Survives After Heart Stops For 45 Minutes
• Craters Show 1970s Viking Lander Missed Martian Ice by Inches
• By 2040 you will be able to upload your brain

"The form of opposition from fundamentalist humanists, and fundamentalist naturalists – that we should make no change to nature [or] to human beings – is directly contrary to the nature of human beings, because we are the species that goes beyond our limitations," counters Kurzweil. "And I think that's quite a destructive school of thought – you can show that hundreds of thousands of kids went blind in Africa due to the opposition to [genetically engineered] golden rice. The opposition to genetically modified organisms is just a blanket, reflexive opposition to the idea of changing nature. Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it."