Archive - Brain Pizza by Shane O'Mara

November 2024

October 2024

Science of Dread

Understanding stress, fear, and dark thoughts (and a special offer)

Oct 31 •

The onward march of semaglutide and friends

Diabetes drugs (also seem to) prevent overdoses - alcohol and opioids

Oct 22 •

Matthew Cobb, The Idea of the Brain

Oct 18 •

William Fakespeare: LLMs are not creative

All is dark inside an LLM. There is no there, there.

Oct 15 •

Interesting reads, October 2024 edition

The new GLP1 weight loss drugs; Fraud and Alzheimer’s disease; Rotten Data; Irony; Patti Smith; Worst song of all time; Megalopolis; Thunderstruck

Oct 8 •

Minimally conscious states

Book review of 'Into The Grey Zone' by Adrian Owen

Oct 4 •

A Neglected Partner in Episodic Memory

An experiment with Google's NotebookLM

Oct 2 •

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