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Non-local Memories & Entangled Minds
Memories are fluid. They alter over time. Sometimes the details are lost or adjusted, other times they are manufactured in response to an...
Sam Taw
Mar 20, 20198 min read
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Brain-Computer Interfaces – neural enhancement or the end of mankind?
How is it that we have become the apex predator on Earth? Simple - evolution favoured our ingenuity. We are not the fastest, strongest or...
Sam Taw
Mar 6, 20196 min read
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9 Ways to Beat Dementia
We all know how to keep our hearts healthy, but what about our brains? Eat oats for breakfast, get your five a day, vigorous exercise...
Sam Taw
Feb 20, 20198 min read
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5G - And Why We Should All Be Worried.
It is an attractive proposition. Internet speeds up to twenty times faster than our current best services can offer. Mobile streaming in...
Sam Taw
Feb 6, 20194 min read
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Lost in Space
There is a standing joke within my family, that I could not navigate my way out of a paper bag. They smirk and simper, and shake their...
Sam Taw
Jan 23, 20194 min read
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Passive Manipulation — How Vulnerable Are We to Media Bias?
George Orwell popularised the notion of ‘Sheeple’. Conspiracy theorists ran with the term from then on, but just how manipulated are we...
Sam Taw
Jan 9, 20195 min read
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The Psychology of Now: Why is the future more tantalising than the present?
We live in a ‘Buy Now’ culture. One that rewards impulsiveness and instant gratification. The buy now, pay later marketing phenomenon is...
Sam Taw
Dec 22, 20185 min read
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Dependability is Dead
It all began with the Marshmallow Test. Present a child with a single marshmallow, tell them that they could have instant gratification...
Sam Taw
Nov 28, 20184 min read
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Brain Tingles
I have written before about the neurology of synaesthesia, where a person’s senses blend, allowing them to see colours of music, or taste...
Sam Taw
Nov 14, 20182 min read
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Skynet is Here to Stay
Trust is hard won, but easily lost forever. Why are global tech and consumer companies trying so hard to win our favour and approval? It...
Sam Taw
Oct 31, 20182 min read
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Microwaved Children
Having recently received the diagnosis of a defective thyroid gland, I am reminded of an article I read regarding the effects of...
Sam Taw
Oct 17, 20182 min read
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Indiana Jones and the Mystery Strings
I was never interested in History as a child. Dull school room text books and rote learning put me off the subject for years. The only...
Sam Taw
Oct 3, 20183 min read
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Think Yourself Thin
A placebo is a powerful thing. Now, it seems that they can be administered in both tablet and psychological form, with similar effects on...
Sam Taw
Sep 19, 20183 min read
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Journalistic Integrity is Dead
My research takes me to a pretty diverse cross section of websites on the internet. One moment I am trawling through scientific...
Sam Taw
Sep 5, 20183 min read
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Brain Hack
In this internet age of YouTube videos reclassifying common sense as wonderful hacks, I was amazed to find an entire branch of scientific...
Sam Taw
Aug 22, 20183 min read
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Water, water everywhere...
Just seven days after the release of book two in The Aurora Conspiracy series, I stumbled across an article which documents a real event...
Sam Taw
Aug 8, 20183 min read
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Brain Zapping
There appears to be a resurgence of medical studies investigating electrical stimulation of the brain. My last blog post centred around a...
Sam Taw
Jul 25, 20182 min read
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Intel inside - Your Brain
It amuses me how often neuroscientists alter their opinions on the functions of brain regions. Take the cerebellum, a lobe attached to...
Sam Taw
Jul 11, 20182 min read
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Eywa Has Heard You!
Why is it when scientific studies buck the current trends and paradigms, they are relegated to the backwaters and entitled,...
Sam Taw
Jun 27, 20183 min read
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Total Recall
While scientists across the globe are competing to master the use of gene manipulation to grow new body parts and repair broken organs,...
Sam Taw
Jun 13, 20182 min read
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