Tuesday, February 13, 2007

This is your web on drugs...


Spiders coping with dangerous drugs, like oh, caffeine...

The spider on marijuana drifted off before finishing the job. The spider on benzedrine, an upper, worked energetically but without much planning. The spider dosed with chloral hydrate, a sedative, soon fell asleep.

To the surprise of Dr. Noever et al, caffeine did the most damage of all the substances tested. The spider dosed with it proved incapable of creating even a single organized cell, and its web showed no sign of the “hub and spokes” pattern fundamental to conventional web design.

What does the web of a caffeinated spider (which can hardly be accustomed to the jolt of a morning latte) have to do with human behavior? Unlikely as it sounds, it may be the most vivid illustration of caffeine’s disorienting effect on caffeine-sensitive people, many of whom may be misdiagnosed as mentally ill.

[Thanks, Jack]

2 comments:

Wiz Kun said...

Well, Spiders making a web does not equate to a human doing one of his works. Human brain works on so much complicated bio-chemistry.

So, what is about human making literature pieces of art when under the euphoric effect of THC. It is different from a spider building a web.

The Spider web is larger than the spider and it has to move about a lot to build a web. But a human does not have to move about a lot to do something out of his mind and fingers..

Anonymous said...

WOW...i AM REALLY GLAD THAT i DO NOT DO DRUGS EVEN JUST A LATTE THOUGH DANG THAT IS CRAZY!