Could a 9-Volt Battery Be More Stimulating Than Coffee, Tobacco, or Pot?

Could a 9-volt battery be more stimulating than coffee, tobacco, or pot? David Hornig discusses the newest brain science.

"Flow."

Although it can be annoyingly difficult to define with any precision and virtually impossible to measure objectively, everyone intuitively knows what it is, and most people have experienced some form of it at one time or another. It's that state of effortless concentration that leads to superior performance, either mental or physical. Everything superfluous to the task at hand is shut out of the mind. At the highest level, Michael Jordan sees a basketball hoop that's four feet wide and cannot be missed; Einstein is able to conjure the complete structure of the universe inside his head. Read more