Non-material neuroscience: not your average crackpot theory.

From The New Scientist:
Schwartz and Beauregard are part of a growing “non-material neuroscience” movement. They are attempting to resurrect Cartesian dualism – the idea that brain and mind are two fundamentally different kinds of things, material and immaterial – in the hope that it will make room in science both for supernatural forces and for [...]

Hawks and handsaws.

Better late than never, right?
My argument for why Hamlet is a neurosurgeon is online at Open Letters Monthly. I should mention I am more pleased than punch to have my words on the same page as a picture of David Tennant; not since my kickabout days writing unsolicited film reviews for The [...]

Phew.

I guess this will be the status quo for the next four months, but:
I woke up very early this morning and my only thought was to get back to sleep. Rather, that was the only thought I wanted to have. Aha, dear reader, but that was not what happened. Vague fears and [...]

At a fête in Aix-en-Provence.

Just back from a jaunt to the South of France for a week and a half.
Now there was a sentence I didn’t think I’d get to write for another, oh, ten years or so.
I managed to get a surprising amount of work done while I was there – I’d initially envisioned [...]