NeuroLogica Blog

Is the food category of “ultraprocessed” useful for consumers?

Christina Applegate, an American actress, has been an outspoken advocate for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) since her own diagnosis.

My wife and I had nothing scheduled yesterday, so we took the opportunity to vote early.

It seems that the hottest topic of 2026 is the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to bring about some terrible cataclysm, even including mass human death or extinction.

It is an interesting time in human history for our understanding of life in the universe.

The carbon nanofiber revolution has been slower than hoped.

The Nobel Prize is often awarded not to researchers who made a huge discovery about how the world works, but to those who have developed techniques that improve research itself.

Stephen J Gould (still my favorite science essayist) wrote an excellent article in 1985 (Red Wings in the Sunset, later published in his book, Bully for Brontosaurus) about artist and naturalist Abbott Handerson Thayer.

Dog owners (of which I am one) tend to develop a strong sense that their dogs understand what they are saying.

This is a tiny bit of good news it what has been a horrific story for American science over the last almost two years.

A recent article in the New York Times is, unfortunately, terrible journalism that ends up shilling for a fraudulent and exploitative industry.

When you hear the phrase, “Science is socially constructed,” what does that mean to you?

For many science fiction fans the computer voice on the Enterprise is iconic, and is, in fact, “the” voice of any computer.

Solar power as a source of electricity has been on a meteoric rise, and has crossed some encouraging milestone recently.

On Sunday August 30, 2026, NASA successfully launched the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope aboard a Space X Falcon Heavy.

There is a lot of legitimate concern over the net effects of students using AI to do their school work.

It should be clear by now that drone technology has crossed a technological threshold where they are cheap and efficient enough to have widespread use.

In the last few decades our understanding of human evolution has expanded considerably.

Terraforming, altering a planet’s atmosphere and surface to make it more Earth-like, has become a staple of science fiction.

I saw the movie, Disclosure Day.

It’s interesting to go back to see articles I wrote years ago to see how they held up.

I am back from an almost three week trip to LA, Sydney and Christchurch.