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Gene Therapy Turns Slackers Into Workaholics
DrLudicrous writes "According to a recent Reuters article, scientists have been able to cause monkeys to stop procrastinating by blocking the development of a dopamine receptor in the brain. The net result- the monkeys turned into workaholics. An article has appeared in the online version of Nature. Apparently, monkeys, just like human beings, tend to slack off on tasks until the very last minute. They become quite adept at judging how long they have till they absolutely must complete these tasks. The original article appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. An additional blurb appears here courtesty of Science Blog." NIH has a press release.
... they'll rue the day they published this story.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws-Plato
Sounds like the cold-war era stereotype of Japan.... They turned out OK, but I'd hate to temp fate twice
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Exactly. God damn it I hate when people misuse that phrase :-)...
...there are plenty of people around you who make a pretty good living on social skills rather than any especial work ethic.
Yes, and I fucking HATE people like that. THEY ARE LEECHES. They leech off the hard work of others. You see, there's 'x' amount of work to be done and, if it doesn't get done, bad things happen. We can't all sit around on our asses like baboons, schmoozing and procrastinating and eating fruit. People like this are lazy, NO ACCOUNT parasites, that should be taken out and SHOT. If the hard workers were smart, we'd get together and do just that -- horde thm together and shoot the fuckers. Luckily, it is technically possible and may, one day, happen. After all, they lack, ultimately, the ambition to defend themselves.
Is AdolF Hitler what you wanted to be?