Can you rewrite your own brain?
I’m currently in the process of re-reading Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity is Near and having read the section about how the brain rewrites itself as you learn got me thinking. This is nothing new of...
View ArticleIntelligence of Genetics
Recently, I visited Headingley Cafe Scientifique for the first time for a talk entitled “Intelligence of Genetics.” I had never attended the Headingley Cafe before but it seems very well attended. It...
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Synthetic Biology – A Brave New World?
The latest meeting of Leeds Skeptics saw Dr Bruce Turnbull from the School of Chemistry at the University of Leeds present a talk on “Synthetic Biology – A Brave New World?” It was an incredibly...
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On the Origin of Species
As the king of atheism in Leeds (because nobody else wanted the job), On the Origin of Species felt like the kind of book that I should have read. However, I never had, partly because it is basically a...
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Voyage of the Beagle
The Voyage of the Beagle is the book published by Charles Darwin following his five year trip around South America aboard the H.M.S. Beagle. I read the abridged version because it sounded interesting,...
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