Let’s be honest, the first few weeks of each academic year are more than unnerving. Most of us will be moving into new, unfamiliar accommodation, will have to socialise with people we have never met before or haven’t seen in months, whilst also having to get used to the idea of focusing on our degrees […]
A Placebo … For the Public?!?
In a recent event run by the University of Exeter’s Debating Society (DebSoc), I had the pleasure of arguing the proposition side for the debate “This house believes that complementary medicine is a threat to public health”. It was a close thing, tying up at 34 to 36: we lost by two votes. But fear […]
Your storage with Microsoft DNA
Microsoft is developing DNA technology that could revolutionize data storage by the end of the decade. Just last year they transmitted 200 megabytes of literary classics – 100 in total – onto DNA, and are now looking to use this knowledge to tackle one of our newest technological problems. Our lives have been changed by […]
How and Why Your Dog Is Judging You
Psychologist Dr James Anderson and his associates looked into whether animals – dogs and monkeys – were capable of identifying anti-social behaviour, and in the process have found a mechanism by which basic morality can form. In their investigation they made dogs observe three actors who played the following characters: a struggler, a potential helper, […]