…rat.
Yesterday’s Telegraph features one of the most eye-opening stories of the day – at least, it got my attention.
“Researchers found that the aroma of coffee helped restore brain activity in sleep-deprived rats to normal or near-normal levels,” it says.
Yes – it is true! Half of a group of rats kept awake for 24 hours – in a lab in Japan – the lucky half – were exposed to the smell of roasted coffee beans…
“When the researchers then dissected the animals to examine their brains they detected lower levels of ‘messenger molecules’ which show up genetic activity in the sleep-deprived rats.
But among those exposed to the smell of coffee, the molecules appeared to have returned to near-normal levels in most cases.”
Alarmingly, according to the Telegraph, this news “has led to suggestions that factory owners should pump the smell of coffee into the building to revive flagging workers unable to have a cup.” Which rather begs the question of a coffee break… or is it like jam every other day. And one has to hope the logical next step wouldn’t be dissection.
But I think if we extract the essence (geddit!?!! God, I slay myself sometimes) from this story it does tell us everything we need to know about our morning coffee. Grinders at the ready! You know what to do.
2 Comments
June 24, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Coming off the back of a twenty nine yr addiction to the bean, s/he who i am imagining (seeing i still drink coffee in moderation) it is common knowledge, would be as bad as tossing off a similar skag habit. Imagine that ! omg !
a forty nine yr old street person so vilely corrupted by the devil’s Work: it is all one can to not to immediately smote the fuax fellos of our clerical batches of stacks and vats of poet/s Hebrew, me brew she Brew Love Fierce Segias Noh thetarical Tradition of Daniel O’Donnell from Donegal, a lone, all a lone Noh expert in irish country Music West as it gets here: islaes of Happy jangling scops, topping into the slots, Master’s Plan Till
that’s enough – ed.
June 25, 2008 at 12:13 am
a ha, i didn’t realise you had an edit facility. take no notice of my ranting ms B, just slash at will and never be afraid to or think i will be offended. in fact, being 100%, yr doing me a favour, as i have always practiced total free play, and it is 90% shite, and i am not whacking it out as finished gear, just continual speculation, unique career path all of us have as singular individuals in the IT age..
passion and poetry, argh, there is the rub of heartbreak and medz..