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The Three Responses (comic)

I was having a thought about “know it alls” - how they act without sometimes realising how their reaction can make others feel.

NG2 cells (an intro)

Before I forget all I learned, I’d like to put up a series of posts around the research I was doing in Bonn. Slightly glia-centric (on OPCs / NG2 cells...

Different Flavours of Research

Updated to a new blog! Beep Bloop Testing Testing..

Arguing for Brain Machine Interfaces

Written for Pi newspaper Amped up on scifi with films ranging from epics like Solaris to the big-time Hollywood hits Inception and Pacific Rim, it’s sometimes hard to distinguish fact...

If you break it, you buy it.

In UCL Pi newspaper, print edition. My unedited, unabbreviated version below: A rant on our government's uselessness Re climate change. Woman up, world! Get the fuck up and start investing...

Building Sustainability

Bit of a re-hash, but worth looking into associated links. Especially buildings created from wood - brilliant.  In the same way that local filter bubbles can inhibit our capacity to...

The City Never Sleeps –But We Need To

Posted in UCL Pi magazine, my original version unedited: We’ve been brought up to believe sleep is a necessary but avoidable luxury – Watching Grey’s Anatomy, Mad Men, 24 –...

Frack off? Indeed

“Fracking has the real potential to drive down energy bills” Hydraulic fracturing operation at a Marcellus Shale well Cameron’s foray into the Shale gas debate is convincing. Who wouldn’t like...

Endorphins: crucial or not?

Written a few months ago, this look into endorphins was a submission for the Biochemical Society’s annual Science Writing competition – for the layperson. I can see some flaws, but figured...

Prosthetics: has Sports Media hyped up our expectations?

If you had to lose your legs to save your unborn child – would you do it? It’s one of those typical (and frankly preposterous) TV plots that demand a...

Kinesthetics

Dancing is not getting up any time painlessly like a speck of dust blown around in the wind. Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces...

The Focus in Architecture Design

“Why do I feel scared in some environments, but not in others?” For a while I thought the answer to this question was based entirely on events in that environment...