“What’s Wrong with Me?”

“The doctor told me to take a replacement thyroid hormone and check back in six weeks. By then, I would be feeling better. This was the way medicine worked: tests told you what was wrong, and doctors told you how to fix it.

But I didn’t feel better in six…

“Acupuncture in cancer study reignites debate about controversial technique”

“Jun Mao, chief of integrative medicine at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York City, says that acupuncture trials such as Hershman’s are better blinded than studies of approaches…

“Why some people can hear this silent gif”

“He suggested a possible theory which his lab call the “visual ear.”

“I suspect the noisy gif phenomenon is closely related to what we call the Visually-Evoked Auditory Response, or vEAR for short,” explained Fassnidge.

“A not entirely serious future history of neuroscience”

“2053, February 11th, 11:03AM GMT: Thirty years late and 100 billion euros over budget, the final Human Brain Project platform is released. The full Human Brain Interactive Simulation model (Project HuBrIS) is promised to be a…

“Cheese Powder and Other Hobgoblins: A Double Standard in Risk Reporting”

“Moreover, when the story provides a link to the “study,” you are taken not to the research itself but to a summary written by an advocacy group, the Coalition for Safer Food Processing and Packaging…

“A Few Bad Scientists Are Threatening to Topple Taxonomy”

“To study life on Earth, you need a system. Ours is Linnaean taxonomy, the model started by Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus in 1735. Linnaeus’s two-part species names, often Latin-based, consist of both a genus name and a species…

“Why Your Brain Has Trouble Bailing Out Of A Bad Plan”

“The study found that stopping an action required three key brain areas to communicate with eight other areas. Previous research had suggested fewer areas were required.

The team also found that all the…

“Perfectly normal”

“In Normality, Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens further the conversation about normality instigated in the twentieth century by philosophers Georges Canguilhem and Michel Foucault, then expanded by race studies, queer theory and disability rights. Cryle and Stephens introduce a needed…