Marijuana and Coffee are Good for the Brain

Gary Wenk, professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at The Ohio State University discusses what happens to our brains as we age. Low doses of marijuana seem to stimulate the brain in positive ways. Coffee acts as another stimulant that is proving helpful. Professor Wenk also talks about the best method to slow down the aging [...]

Why People Pay the Best Price for a Good Cup of Coffee

People seldom understand the appeal of the coffee shop. They seldom understand the driving force that guides a person from one coffee shop to the other. Another thing that they fail to understand is why people choose to pay huge amounts of money for coffee that they can easily make when they are at home. [...]

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) About Caffeine

Caffeine is a stimulant to the central nervous system. Scientifically, it is known as a xanthine alkaloid and is found both beans and leaves. It’s a good drug and it’s legal.

A Brief Yet Enlightening History of Caffeine

Those crazy party dudes of the social sciences, anthropologists, have discovered evidence as only they can that caffeine has been knowingly used as a stimulant since the Stone Age. This may not be exactly on the level, since apparently their primary source of information is an episode of The Flintstones. Seriously, the official history of [...]

The Story of Caffeine

Evidence exists to the fact that caffeine has been used as a stimulant far back into periods of early history. One of the most famous poets of all time Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who is better known as the author of the Faust legend, reportedly gave a young chemist known as Friedrich Ferdinand Runge a [...]