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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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Sam Taw
Jan 24, 20182 min read
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....
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Sam Taw
Jan 10, 20183 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...
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Sam Taw
Dec 27, 20172 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...
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Sam Taw
Dec 13, 20173 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...
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Sam Taw
Nov 29, 20172 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...
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Sam Taw
Nov 15, 20173 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...
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Sam Taw
Nov 1, 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...
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Sam Taw
Oct 18, 20172 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...
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Sam Taw
Oct 4, 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...
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Sam Taw
Sep 20, 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...
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Sam Taw
Sep 6, 20173 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,...
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