The second most-watched TED Talk of all time has been debunked.
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Does dropping a few brain-related words into an argument cause people to lose the capacity for critical thought?
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Don’t try this at home A man who expects to soon be blind has implanted a magnet into his ear, which can now be used as a wireless headphone. The […]
I love a good protest song, this one by Auditory Canvas couldn’t be more salient. The tune is dubbed entirely with particularly resonant segments of John F Kennedy’s “President and […]
RIP Aaron Swartz, you will not be forgotten.
An article published in The Telegraph over a month ago remains on The Telegraph website with a headline that is so spectacularly incorrect that the BBC has reported that the article […]