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...
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Sam Taw
Oct 17, 20182 min read
Microwaved Children
Having recently received the diagnosis of a defective thyroid gland, I am reminded of an article I read regarding the effects of...
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Sam Taw
Oct 3, 20183 min read
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...
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Sam Taw
Sep 19, 20183 min read
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...
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Sam Taw
Sep 5, 20183 min read
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...
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Sam Taw
Aug 22, 20183 min read
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...
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Sam Taw
Aug 8, 20183 min read
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...
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Sam Taw
Jul 25, 20182 min read
Brain Zapping
There appears to be a resurgence of medical studies investigating electrical stimulation of the brain. My last blog post centred around a...
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Sam Taw
Jul 11, 20182 min read
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...
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Sam Taw
Jun 27, 20183 min read
Eywa Has Heard You!
Why is it when scientific studies buck the current trends and paradigms, they are relegated to the backwaters and entitled,...
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Sam Taw
Jun 13, 20182 min read
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,...
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Sam Taw
May 30, 20182 min read
Like a Circle in a Spiral...
It seems that the delicate structures of helices and spirals pervade more of our world than we initially thought. In following a...
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Sam Taw
May 16, 20182 min read
Resistance is Futile...
Perhaps the Big Brother of the future might be better described as a creepy little sister. I may have used this analogy before, which...
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Sam Taw
May 2, 20182 min read
Grow Your Own Brain
One more example of science fiction becoming science fact. We are another step closer to re-growing body parts to order. This time,...
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Sam Taw
Apr 18, 20182 min read
Altered Carbon is No Longer Fictional
When I first read the news that a rudimentary biological circuit had been created from clusters of kidney cells, I was both excited and...
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Sam Taw
Apr 4, 20182 min read
Chris Evans Tastes Like Spangles
Synaesthesia appears to be an increasingly popular quirk to apply to characters in fictional stories. This revelation sent me on a quest...
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Sam Taw
Mar 21, 20182 min read
Dark DNA? Fascinating Title for a Mistake in Experimental Protocols.
This is one of those rare times when my posts appear to overlap. In my last report, on the 7th March 2018, I wrote about the potential...
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Sam Taw
Mar 7, 20182 min read
An Enzyme Away from X-Men Mutants
“I’m not worried…” says Jennifer Doudna, the woman who has cracked gene editing, “I’m excited.” I cannot help wondering whether Robert...
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Sam Taw
Feb 21, 20183 min read
The Nature of Consciousness
Natures laws do not stop at our front doors. As much as we attempt to control it, the science of life has an all pervading control over...
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Sam Taw
Feb 7, 20182 min read
Birds of a Feather
No matter how socially inclusive and ethnically diverse we aim to be, it seems we are all hardwired to seek out those most similar to...
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