Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
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A study of brain cancer patients in Italy shows the neural epicenters of spiritual experiences and religious belief.
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WeCU Technologies thinks it can read the minds of would-be terrorists , and they want to test their approach at airports. Unfortunately, their approach is unlikely to work.
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A biologist tried to give a neuroscience lesson to the utopian futurists at H+ and they did not take it well.
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If you ask Raymond Tallis, he will start off some very valid critiques about the use of functional MRI to map the brain, and end up regurgitating creationist talking points.
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Some engineers are convinced that neurons work the same way as circuits. Neuroscience begs to differ.
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Bleeding edge science isn't always right, especially when it tries to figure out free will and how we think.
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Your brain does not work like a computer just because it also sends electrical signals through special pathways.