Electric Jolt Improves Memory, and Other Links
Pacemaker for the brain: Electric jolt improves memory.
Nearly 1 in 20 US adults over 50 have artificial knees.
Krugman vs the world. BTW, all the other economists pictured are quite civil when not engaged with Krugman.
Mediterranean diet may be good for the brain as well as the heart.
I’ve never understood the fascination with Krugman. From what I’ve seen he consistently misses key facts and, to borrow a phrase, is often sound and fury signifying nothing.
Very interesting article on using electricity to stimulate the brain. I think that this will be widely used some day, however far off.
I think Krugman makes for a convenient target simply because he’s such a high-profile advocate. Though he’s not the most extreme in the Keynesian camp, he’s the only one with a regular column in one of the most-read publications in the world. If the Chicago school could bludgeon Maynard himself, I’m sure they’d jump at the chance.
There is no such thing as the Mediterranean diet. The idea of a “Mediterranean diet” was an invention by an American doctor, who made a career out of writing books about a healthy diet be observed poor, post-war Italians eating. In fact, there are numerous diets consumed by different cultures from numerous geographic locations that border the Mediterranean. One thing these all seem to have in common is that they are diets nobody ate because they wanted to. Post-war Italians ate lentils, grains and limited protein because food was scarce, they were poor and that’s all they could afford. That said, what became known as the Mediterranean diet is probably a healthy choice – although residents of countries bordering the Mediterranean are increasingly embracing an unhealthy Western diet.