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Each month we count down our highest trending posts. 5. You better sit down for this… (Updated) 4. What’s the difference between cancer and whiplash?…
From Popular Mechanics earlier this week: 10 Scientific Images That Changed How We Looked at the World “Whether it was a drawing or photograph, these…
Interesting and fun piece from The Wall Street Journal on doodling. The Power of the Doodle: Improve Your Focus and Memory “Long dismissed as a…
Woolworths health checks: Pharmacists concerned over moves to allow check-ups in supermarkets “Woolworths has confirmed it is hiring final year pharmacy students, graduating pharmacists and…
A large study, published yesterday in the very fancy journal The Lancet, has found that Paracetamol is not effective for treating back pain. Here’s a link to an…
I’ve been digging into the dusty recesses of the noi archives recently, intrepidly exploring the cobwebbed piles of scrolls, leather bound tomes and stacks of parchments*….
Great piece in The Atlantic recently about one brain myth that won’t go away. Humans Already Use Way, Way More Than 10 Percent of Their Brains…
Each month we count down our highest trending posts. 5. Congruence 4. You rock my umwelt 3. Hypnotic anaesthesia 2. Bold phantom claims 1. Mirror pains and icebergs –…
What is the difference between cancer and whiplash? I have been loitering lots in doctors’ surgeries in the last few weeks taking a loved one…
With the previous post on meaning, this classic noinote from 2010 seemed apt for a Flashback. When the light goes on Big brain shifts Can you…