For those of us who have not been on the road lately,
that is those of us who have been working away and dreaming of travel, it was a refreshing, if
predictable flash of good news to read that our good old friend, coffee, is exactly the pick me up, memory enhancer
we always knew it was. Yes, according to a report released by Austrian researchers who performed functional magnetic
resonance (FUNMACS…OK, not really) imaging scans on people, we learn that just two cups of coffee result in an increase
in frontal lobe activity…frontal lobes, you might remember from biology class, are the place in your noggin where you
do your best thinking…or you may remember from One Flew Over the Cuckoos
Nest that they can be nicely scrambled in the heads of insane or dangerous people…or just for fun. Anyway, I guess
we already knew this, but
nice to have it in writing.