Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Outsourcing Sleep.
One of my oldest - but i gotta write it down. If you cast your mind back to GCSE biology, perhaps you'll remember adenosine triphosphate (ATP). This little number gives you the energy. Muscle contractions et al. ATP breaks down to Adenosine, and after sleep, the quantities of this chemical in your body decrease. When Adenosine binds to your cells, it can make you feel sleepy. One thing that caffeine does is inhibit this binding.
Adenosine is just one of the chemicals that is attributed to sleep, and scientists are only beginning to understand how it, and the others work. Soon, we're going to get a drug which keeps us awake all the time, without feeling extra tired later. But with the shift toward natural remedies, the expensive version of this drug will have to be naturally produced. Which means the drug companies are going to have to tap it from humans.
The Wealthy are going to pay people to sit around sleeping all day, so that they can stay awake, and get richer. Shobana points out that prisoners will be targeted for donations.
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would be traded on the open commodities market, with higher prices commanded for the T-Blockers purity.
It follows that the Dalai Lama could make a fortune by selling the purest, having a truly balanced mind, sought through many years of deep meditation.
The market analyists would poduce yealy reports on the purity of various producers. Questioning the 'purity' of faiths that enforce celibacy on their followers, as undue stress caused by the quelling all physical desires (Nuns).
The pschological wellbeing of the consumer must also affect the result.
Antoine.
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would be traded on the open commodities market, with higher prices commanded for the T-Blockers purity.
It follows that the Dalai Lama could make a fortune by selling the purest, having a truly balanced mind, sought through many years of deep meditation.
The market analyists would poduce yealy reports on the purity of various producers. Questioning the 'purity' of faiths that enforce celibacy on their followers, as undue stress caused by the quelling all physical desires (Nuns).
The pschological wellbeing of the consumer must also affect the result.
Antoine.
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