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Would You Care for a Dopamine Tickle, Sir?
Not keen on your partners Jazz music? Zap your brain with magnetic pulses and you’ll be willing to pay to listen, for a while at least....
Sam Taw
Jan 24, 20182 min read


Incompetent Government Agencies Put Us at Risk
The US agency responsible for keeping America ‘safe’, has been hacked by a group called Shadow Brokers, harvesting unlimited packages of...
Sam Taw
Jan 10, 20183 min read


T'is the Season for Good Reasoning
Millions of years of physical evolution and our complex societal behaviour patterns are no further on from cavemen. A recent article in...
Sam Taw
Dec 27, 20172 min read


A Neurological MOT
Another post about sleep? Guilty as charged, although this time, the focus is on the importance of movement. We have all seen the...
Sam Taw
Dec 13, 20173 min read


An Even Bigger Brother
Most of us who use the Internet, or have mobile telephones, accept that even with privacy protocols in place, the government or another...
Sam Taw
Nov 29, 20172 min read


Senior Moment or Mental Flatulence?
For years I made fun of my grandmother for calling me by the name of every family member before landing on the correct one. Now it seems...
Sam Taw
Nov 15, 20173 min read


Has Science Killed God?
First it was pagan ritual, followed by Roman and Greek Gods, and then came Christianity in all its many guises, to wreak havoc on a...
Sam Taw
Nov 1, 20173 min read


Do You Believe in Magic?
You may laugh, but magic is as alive and well in the twenty-first century as it was in pagan times. How many of us still cross our...
Sam Taw
Oct 18, 20172 min read


The Deception of Perception
Flatlands, thinking outside the box, blue-sky thinking, all had their day, or so I thought until I read this week’s New Scientist...
Sam Taw
Oct 4, 20172 min read


When Did It Become Okay to Misuse Mental Illness for Profit?
Haven’t we moved on from this outdated view of mental illness? The amnesic Finding Nemo character, the ankle smashing psychotic of...
Sam Taw
Sep 20, 20172 min read


To Placebo or Not to Placebo.
Most people widely acknowledge the efficacy of a sugar pill, masquerading as a cure-all medicine, but according to some scientists,...
Sam Taw
Sep 6, 20173 min read


Would You Follow the Rabbit Down the Hole?
Psychedelic drugs are not exactly new. Cultures around the world discovered them centuries ago, but their popularity seems to be on the...
Sam Taw
Aug 23, 20172 min read


Do We All Have a Sixth Sense?
Most people accept that homing pigeons have a sixth sense when it comes to navigation, but did we at some point, also have the same...
Sam Taw
Aug 9, 20173 min read


How to Raise Your Awe Quotient
Did you know that scientists have categorical evidence to prove that experiencing awe, makes you more generous, altruistic and better...
Sam Taw
Aug 2, 20173 min read


Is EMF Worse than Smoking?
Are we immersing ourselves in an ever increasing, dense fog of mutagenic frequencies? Dr Martin Blank, of Colombia University, believes...
Sam Taw
Jul 19, 20173 min read


Can Active Dream Manipulation Prolong Your Life?
I love sleeping. It is both necessary and restorative, but I had no idea what critical mental housekeeping functions occur while you...
Sam Taw
Jul 11, 20172 min read


Are Our Viewing Habits Killing Us?
Are we immersing ourselves in toxic emotions, stirred by the media which are regulated by government elite? I was watching a particularly...
Sam Taw
Jul 5, 20173 min read


Is it Possible to Unlock our Inner Savant?
Do Savants miraculous abilities come from unlocked vaults in their grey matter, or are they accessing those skills from a greater pool of...
Sam Taw
Jun 28, 20173 min read


Are We All Natural Mind Readers?
Most of us can detect subtle non-verbal cues that surround human and animal interactions, but are some of us more empathetic than others?...
Sam Taw
Jun 21, 20173 min read


I am a Daydream Believer
Woohoo! Scientists are now promoting active daydreaming as a productive pursuit. Finally, something I am good at. A wandering mind has...
Sam Taw
Jun 14, 20172 min read
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