You are what you eat: is cannibalism a good idea?
Cannibalism in Brazil, engraved by Theodor de Bry, 1655. Image credit: Wellcome Library, London. CC BY 4.0. During lockdown I,...
Tag: brain
An Alien in Our Sea: A look at the intelligence of an octopus
Image credit: Elisabetta Lando In 2016, one of my favourite sci-fi films Arrival was released, and – mild spoiler alert...
Time for an upgrade? Exploring human neural enhancement
Image credit: Aytuguluturk, Pixabay When considering neuroprosthetics and brain-machine interfaces, cyborgs and sentient robots may come to mind – part...
The brain is overrated: a look at cognition in slime mould
Historical, scientific and philosophical adventure into the nature of consciousness seems to have, nine times out of ten, made the...
Mapping the human synaptome: the origins of thought?
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences via Flickr The field of neuroscience has grown exponentially since it began. From the...
The gendered dimensions of autism
Image credit: ElisaRiva via Pixabay. Gender has been at the forefront of discussion in recent years. Amongst all the talk...
Neuroscientist Gina Rippon dismantled the myth of the ‘female brain’
Image Credit: GregPlom via Pixabay The work of Dr Gina Rippon has veered into controversial territory. More controversial, in fact,...
A genetic link between inflammation and depression?
Whilst there are many different cell types in our body, each contains the same DNA. In order to perform their...