Thrag

I've started a new blog with Lisa from CiceroGrade. It's a goofy satirical story with no plan, and is very bad. We're writing it in turns with almost no communication, so who knows where it will go!  If you like bad fantasy, or or enjoy rolling your eyes at tropes, cliches and ridiculousness, then you …

Human Species

I've just started taking a class on Coursera, 'A brief history of humankind'. The first lecture was very interesting and I learned that the multiple species of humans--homo erectus, homo neanderthalensis, homo floresiensis and so on--were not simply links in a chain leading to us, homo sapiens. All these species of humans lived at the …

Brain Work

This recent article describes an experiment in which what they call a 'false memory' is implanted into the mind of a mouse. The mouse is associating the painful shocks it is given, with a different room that it had been in earlier--not the one it was in at the time of the shocks. This sounds …