By Beauty Damned

Stupidity Is A Disease: Please Medicate

It's crazy how much relevant news just flies right by me these days, but even crazier that when sifting through headlines, the things I find most attention grabbing are things like this:

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German scientist has been testing an "anti-stupidity" pill with encouraging results on mice and fruit flies, Bild newspaper reported Saturday.

It said Hans-Hilger Ropers, director at Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, has tested a pill thwarting hyperactivity in certain brain nerve cells, helping stabilize short-term memory and improve attentiveness.

"With mice and fruit flies we were able to eliminate the loss of short-term memory," Ropers, 62, is quoted saying in the German newspaper, which has dubbed it the "world's first anti-stupidity pill."

Now there's a GREAT idea. What I wouldn't give to be able to drop one of those in someone's drink every once in awhile...