Easter Island Drug Raises Cognition Throughout Life Span in Mice

ScienceDaily.com ^ | 06/29/2012 | ScienceDaily

[HiTech RedNeck]

Recent excavations proved that those were full figure statues, buried up to the neck. Why Easter Islanders bothered to do that is unclear to me. Sunken?

[SunkenCiv]

They didn’t — the statues were on platforms, the vegetation died off, rainy season led to erosion. Also the culture of the island changed; a rebellion resulted in a lot of statues tipped, or the topknots knocked off at the very least.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2883427/posts?page=70#70

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1714661/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks HiTech RedNeck for the ping! Thanks aimhigh for the topic.

Rapamycin, a bacterial product first isolated from soil on Easter Island, enhanced learning and memory in young mice and improved these faculties in old mice...

[bert]

.....Cognitive skills such as learning and memory diminish with age.....

Bert’s view..... as you get old, 50% of what you know no longer matters. Once again, if actually necessary to know, one must look it up. The looking up restores the function for a short while

[Grimmy]

I think I have the first line decyphered.

First symbol: I eyeballed
then, a guy rubbing one out with both hands, then; flinging the goo off his hand, then; putting his pants back on, then; he decided to rub up against a tree trunk with a bird perched on top, then; he examined the huge irritated growth on the end of his tool, then; it all happened at this spot on the north shore of the island.

So, basically, it’s a vice officer’s report, or a transcript of the vice officer’s testimony in court.