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Sensory gating is the process by which the brain filters out irrelevant stimuli from the meaningful one. It prevents an overload of information in the higher cortical centres in the brain. The process is central to explaining the delusions and hallucinations in schizophrenia. Sensory gating…

For the past few weeks, I've been drinking a lot and it's left me with the blues. Shots of Jameson on the night shift, followed by more shots after the night shift in a bartender's bar. It's often daylight out by the time I make…

I wrote my second-year thesis in the history of ideas about education and child-rearing - specifically, the pedagogic ideas about freedom represented by the Scottish educator A.S. Neill. He started publishing books in the 1920s and took a radical approach to child-rearing. Children should be…

I was really happy the other day when someone told me that an old colleague that used to work with us was coming back to the pub. I'll call him Quito. He's young at just 21 and a refugee from Venezuela so he hasn't had…

I spent the past week writing about Neil Postman's perspective on technology. Postman was a media theorist who asked the question of whether we're controlling technology or whether technology is controlling us. In his most famous book Amusing ourselves to death from 1985 Postman described how we're…