Sitemap - 2024 - Shane O'Mara

Why do I forget jobs I have completed?

Predictions about the future of neurogrifters and neuro-nonsense

Altered states: The new science of appetite and brain plasticity

Burning questions: Why the ways we think about our metabolism are all wrong

Your brain 🧠 on exercise: How movement fuels you

'Just put your phone away' - Dec 2024 catch up service #1

Notes on cities

What if societies were (deliberately) built to learn? (part one)

Methods for the Experimenting Society by Donald T. Campbell

Invisible feedback loops: How the body shapes the brain

Interesting reads, November 2024 edition

How bad will you feel when your side loses the election?

Science of Dread

The onward march of semaglutide and friends

Brainy ideas

William Fakespeare: LLMs are not creative

Interesting reads, October 2024 edition

Minimally conscious states

A Neglected Partner in Episodic Memory

My Substack Summer

The GLP1 weight loss drugs offering new hope for Parkinson’s treatment

The Trump-Harris Debate: Contrasting System 1 and System 2 thinking

Some ways authoritarian leaders establish a shared reality

Measuring authoritarianism; 1950's Ireland was what Project 2025 wants the USA to be

How Great Storytelling Lingers in the Mind

Our all-too-human metabolism; Hunger and the weight-loss drugs; Riots, violence, aggression; Movement is medicine

Interesting reads, August 2024 edition

Authoritarians and authoritarianism (part 1)

Patrick MacGill, the 'navvy poet'

Elections allow national conversation resets

Cognitive strain

Interesting reads, June 2024 edition

The pope and the tooth fairy

'Let's have three meetings at the same time to discuss it...' ('No, let's not, thanks')

Conversations and protest #3

Interesting reads, May 2024 edition

Protests, protests, everywhere, but does anybody stop to think? #2

'...be a little underemployed'

Protests, protests, everywhere, but does anybody stop to think? #1

Regular exercise can both prevent and treat depression

Obeying Orders

Interesting reads, April 2024 edition

How do you feel?

Burn, baby, burn

'Anger is an energy'

Creative flow

Belief exhaustion (part two)

Interesting reads, March 2024 edition

Belief exhaustion (part one)

Zealots, extremists, ideologues, and fanatics (ZEIFs)

Some interesting reads for February 2024

Dementia (.... and Joe Biden)

Brain scans reveal critical periods for vulnerability

Life expectancy under strain - the silent epidemic

Thinking about George Orwell’s 1984 through a neuroscience lens

'Just put your phone away'

Bad is stronger than good

Some interesting readings to get you going for 2024