They found that, when given a choice between pressing a lever for methamphetamine or heroin or pressing a lever to get one minute of playtime with another rat, almost 100 percent of the ratsincluding those who showed every indication of addiction-like behaviorchose to press for playtime with the other rat. Pickard concludes something that felt revolutionary, for me at least, to read: Many times, drug use is the misery of a life where addiction is the best thing on offer. Feeling bowled over by this, I emailed her to make sure I understood her argument
Cataract surgery has a success rate above 95 percent and a low chance of complications such as infection or swelling
J Mol Med (Berlin Germany)
At one point, the villainous bureaucrats of the State Science Institute try to sabotage Rands hero Hank Rearden by spreading malicious rumors about his new alloy: If you consider that for thirteen years this Institute has had a department of metallurgical research, which has cost over twenty million dollars and has produced nothing but a new silver polish and a new anti-corrosive preparation, which, I believe, is not so good as the old ones you can imagine what the public reaction will be if some private individual comes out with a product that revolutionizes the entire science of metallurgy and proves to be sensationally successful! Of course, in the real world, only minor trifles, like radar, space flight, nuclear power, GPS, computers, and the Internet were brought about by government research