Prof Sophie Scott
the brain doesn’t care about your experiment. half of @neuromantics1, with @willeaves. RI Xmas Lecturer, Standup scientist, into voices, carpets, mustelids
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Dating While Dying
I found myself terminally ill and unexpectedly single at 40. I didn’t know which was more terrifying.
Medicine fears: ‘The pain is excruciating. I’ll be suicidal if I can’t get my drugs’
Mary is 86 and worried that there will be shortages of the drugs that she takes every day if the UK crashes out of the EU on October 31. She suffers from trigeminal neuralgia, a condition that...
The Interview: the BBC’s new Rottweiler, Emma Barnett, on why politicians fear her
Of all the reasons ever cited for writing a book, this must surely rank among the most original. Emma Barnett’s inspiration as an author struck when she became the first person in British...
Pensioners set to swamp NHS after no-deal Brexit as 260,000 expats return from Europe for healthcare
Up to 260,000 British nationals living in the EU — many of them pensioners — are expected to return to Britain if there is a no-deal Brexit, placing a huge burden on the NHS and other services.
Kirkwood professor who stated he supported Antifa resigns
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KWWL) - Kirkwood Community College has announced today that adjunct professor Jeff Klinzman of the English Department has resigned. Klinzman recently stated that he is a supporter of Antifa. CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KWWL) - Kirkwood...
'I'm Radioactive'
Journalist Jonathan Kaiman is one of the least famous, least powerful men to be brought down by the #MeToo movement. A year later, the fallout continues.
Physicists Debate Gravity at St. Thomas Symposium
The Ritz-Carlton hummed like the inside of an atom Thursday night as 20 of the world's top physicistsincluding three Nobel Prize winnersopened an informal symposium to debate the make
The cult of Columbine: how an obsession with school shooters led to a murder plot
The long read: How two lonely outsiders met online and discovered their passion – planning a massacre at a shopping mall
What it Feels Like to Get No Enjoyment From Music
“I've missed out on friendships and social situations because of it.”
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London Design Festival
King’s Cross, London’s creative quarter and newest shopping destination, will for the first time become a London Design Festival Design District. As well as hosting...
LRB · Terry Eagleton · Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching: Richard Dawkins
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology. Card-carrying rationalists like Dawkins, who is the...
A Giant Volcano Could End Human Life on Earth as We Know It
Why isn’t anyone taking this problem more seriously? Unlikely isn’t the same thing as impossible, even though it’s human nature to conflate the two.
Transgender rugby player playing with 'a smile on my face'
Kelly Morgan says she is playing with a smile on her face after taking up rugby again following transition from male to female.
The Trump Administration’s Onslaught Against Trans Rights Continues
The government wants to make it legal to fire someone for being trans — or for not resembling what they think a woman should look like
Transgender rugby player playing with 'a smile on my face'
Kelly Morgan says she is playing with a smile on her face after taking up rugby again following transition from male to female.