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There’s a great ongoing podcast series called A Neuroscientist Explains that looks at some of the most important points of contact between neuroscience and the wider world. It’s a project of ...

https://mindhacks.com/2017/02/26/a-neuroscientist-podcaster-explains/

If you’re a podcast addict, you could no worse than checking out Say Why to Drugs an excellent new show that covers the science behind a different recreational drug each week. The podcast is wi...

https://mindhacks.com/2016/07/15/a-podcast-on-drugs/

Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news: Why do some children thrive in adult life despite a background of violence and neglect? Fascinating piece from Mosaic. Scientific American a...

https://mindhacks.com/2016/06/25/spike-activity-24-06-2016/

Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news: The New York Times has a fascinating piece on the online community of people who believe they are being ‘gang stalked’. Completely destr...

https://mindhacks.com/2016/06/11/spike-activity-10-06-2016/

Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news: One of the earliest hominin constructions ever found hundreds of metres deep into a cave. Fascinating piece in The Atlantic. Aeon has a fasc...

https://mindhacks.com/2016/05/29/spike-activity-28-05-2016/

Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news: A new paper by AI experts explores the construction of dangerous artificial intelligence. TechRepublic covers the latest step in the inevita...

https://mindhacks.com/2016/05/13/spike-activity-13-05-2016/

I have read a good deal more about information theory and psychology than I can or care to remember. Much of it was a mere association of new terms with old and vague ideas. Presumably the hope w...

https://mindhacks.com/2016/05/12/information-theory-and-psychology/

Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news: This is how it feels to learn your memories are fiction. Good BBC Future piece on confabulation from an event with the fantastic Headway Eas...

https://mindhacks.com/2016/04/29/spike-activity-29-04-2016/

Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news: Nautilus has a fascinating piece on the science of practice and improving skills – not the same as just gaining experience. The science be...

https://mindhacks.com/2016/04/24/spike-activity-22-04-2016/

Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news: Why we’re living in an era of neuroscience hype. Excellent piece in The Daily Dot by well-known neuroscience blogger Neuroskeptic. The Atl...

https://mindhacks.com/2016/04/10/spike-activity-08-04-2016/