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  • Friday 12 September 2014

  • Posts on our network this week included a look at the 1970 British Science Festival, the search for the Higgs, and the ethics of the internet of things
  • Friday 5 September 2014

  • Posts on our network this week included a preview of a thought experiment at the British Science Festival, a look at the link between mental illness and sexual abuse, and some new brain myths to keep neuroscience bloggers on their toes
  • Friday 29 August 2014

  • Posts on the network this week included a look at the work of Yoshiki Sasai, footage of celebrity wolves, and in-depth coverage from the largest ever summit on scientific advice
  • David Robert Grimes: Whether the issue is climate change, healthcare or gun control, libertarians are on a permanent collision course with evidence
  • Thursday 28 August 2014

  • Geologist Andy Hooper explains why the chances of a huge eruption of the Bárðarbunga volcano in Iceland and massive disruption of air travel are low
  • Tuesday 26 August 2014

  • Sam Wilkinson and Felicity Deamer: A promising approach to treating people who hear voices, also known as ‘auditory hallucinations’, is to get the patient or therapist to interact with the speaker
  • Friday 22 August 2014

  • Henry Roth: A student’s science project may have provided the key to saving the lives of athletes who have a potentially fatal heart condition
  • Thursday 21 August 2014

  • Peter Moseley: If we want to understand what’s happening in the brain when people ‘hear voices’, we first need to understand what happens during ordinary inner speech
  • Tuesday 19 August 2014

  • Carole Jahme: As orangutans are added to a list of the world’s 25 most endangered primates, we are discovering that these great apes are more like humans than we supposed
  • Monday 18 August 2014

  • Anne Cooke, Angela Gilchrist and John McGowan: While many people who kill themselves have been experiencing the extreme distress we might think of as depression, that’s not always the case and is rarely the whole explanation
  • Friday 15 August 2014

  • Posts on our network this week included a tribute to Yoshiki Sasai, a look at one wolf’s incredible journey across Europe, and a poignant reminder that suicide and depression are not selfish
  • Wednesday 13 August 2014

  • Ben Alderson-Day: Auditory verbal hallucinations or ‘hearing voices’ is not restricted to people who have a form of psychosis. For many, the voices provide support and guidance or have a spiritual aspect
  • David Cox: Nanotherapy is showing promise as a means to target chemotherapy, kill tumour cells by heating or enhance the effectiveness of radiotherapy
  • Friday 8 August 2014

  • Posts on our network included a look at the race to put humans on Mars, whether closing stroke units can improve survival rates, and some scaremongering ‘facts’ about Ebola
  • Doctors should take into account the ‘downstream’ effects on the environment when they prescribe drugs, suggests a scientist at the US Environmental Protection Agency

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