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Eating time
Read more: Eating timeWe have all some knowledge of our biological clocks – not the ones that tell us our libidos are under threat – the others, the ones that tell us to go to sleep. When we are jetlagged it is because we have contravened a basic regulatory mechanism in our cells. Our eyes don’t like light… Know More
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Who are you, who who, who, who…?
Read more: Who are you, who who, who, who…?The Embryology Bill is to be placed before the House of Commons this week. It is full of the most intractable issues but the one I’d like to ponder on here is the use of animal and human mixed gene experimentation. Being somewhat older in the tooth (but feeling every day younger in the brain),… Know More
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Still gathering no moss in their sixties
Read more: Still gathering no moss in their sixtiesOf course those of us of a certain age have grown up with the Stones. We decided (or didn’t) that they represented our sexual drive in a way that the more melodic and less edgy Beatles never could. Their lyrics were more dangerous. They lived as our alter egos. Jagger’s fey athleticism appealed to boys… Know More
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The Sweet Tooth Fairies
Read more: The Sweet Tooth FairiesWhen I received my PhD all those years ago, all the new doctorates in the country were revealed in some academic journal, I can’t remember which. Anyway, it was engrossing to discover what parallel brains had been working on during the four years I had slaved (with, I admit, mixed results). I have long felt… Know More
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The revolt of the cyber no-brainers
Read more: The revolt of the cyber no-brainersThere was an article this week in the Sunday Times about the latest research being done by Professor Susan Greenfield, a front-edge thinker on the degeneration of the brain, as a result of ageing, disease, trauma and so on. She has produced a book on the subject: ID: the Quest for Identity in the 21st… Know More
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A Tale of the Unexpected – Synchronicity
Read more: A Tale of the Unexpected – SynchronicityWe don’t know the truth of the hypothesis, but Carl Jung’s notion of synchronicity is a gripping one. Jung suggests that extraordinary coincidences and inexplicable events may be the result of connection and communication which exist below the surface of consciousness. Telepathy, empathy, intuition, foreknowledge and so on are forms of mental transmission made possible… Know More
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April in Paris – Pigalle and the Picaresque
Read more: April in Paris – Pigalle and the PicaresqueProbably April has never been the best month to visit Paris. It is not too warm, and the wind blows, and there is a sense of a city coming out of hibernation. A few years on from my first visit, I approached the Museum of Erotica in the Pigalle, slaloming around the street girls in… Know More
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She’s giving me good vibrations…
Read more: She’s giving me good vibrations…A new book has just arrived in a bookstore near you. It is called Love and Sex with Robots and is written by David Levy, an expert in artificial intelligence. In the review of it that I read yesterday (the excellent Christopher Hart, Sunday Times), it appears as though we have already entered a world… Know More
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Torching Tibet
Read more: Torching TibetHearing an apparatchik on yesterday’s news, conjuring up disturbing realpolitik regarding the demonstrations against China’s conduct in Tibet was just about as reprehensible as could be imagined. This Olympic Official said that the protesters were without political conviction and were just jumping on a new bandwagon to air their personal grievances and gain attention to… Know More
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Self-administered brain growth
Read more: Self-administered brain growthWell, I watched the BBC 2 programme last night on meditation, half-expecting the same result as when I, myself, meditate, falling asleep just when I think I am getting somewhere – or, actually, nowhere, that being the point of it! I’m glad I didn’t, not because Kathy Sykes, Professor of perspiring femininity and Doctor of… Know More