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BBC Future column: why are we so curious?

June 26, 2012 – 1:58 pm

My column for BBC Future from last week. The original is here.   Evolution made us the ultimate learning machines, and the ultimate learning machines need to be oiled by curiosity. I hate to disappoint you, but whatever your ambitions, whatever your long-term goals, I’m pretty sure that reading this column isn’t going to further […]

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Neurohacks column at BBC Future

February 27, 2012 – 9:05 pm

The quite lovely BBC Future has launched (‘the home of new trends in the worlds of Science, Technology, Environment and Health’) and yours truly has a column there: Neurohacks (‘Neuroscience and the psychology of the everyday’). You can find it in the ‘Brain‘ section. At this point any UK-based surfers who have followed the above […]

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Control your dreams (ebook)

December 30, 2011 – 2:43 pm

Anyone can learn to have lucid dreams, and this ebook tells you how. Lucid dreams are those dreams where you become aware you are dreaming, and can even begin to control the reality of the dream. Adventure, problem-solving and consequence-free indulgence await! And for those interested in the mind, lucid dreams are a great place […]

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Explore your blind spot (free ebook)

December 12, 2011 – 8:09 pm

I’ve written an ebook called ‘Explore your blind spot’. It’s about, er, exploring your blind spot! In the best tradition of Mind Hacks I take you from the raw experience to the cutting edge of scientific theory. The blind spot is a simple phenomenon of our visual processing, but one we don’t notice day to […]

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The Rough Guide to Psychology

April 15, 2011 – 2:08 pm

Friend of mindhacks.com and contributor to the original Mind Hacks book, Christian Jarrett has written the “The Rough Guide to Psychology“, published this month, and a right rip roaring read it is too. It’s a whistle-stop tour through all aspects of the science of mind and behaviour, which reveals just how diverse and rich the […]

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Putting Psychology To Work

January 26, 2011 – 3:38 pm

And Lo! Unto the always excellent BPS Research Digest, a child is born! The BPS Occupational Digest. is new blog which will cover news, reviews and reports on how psychology matters in the workplace. It will be curated by friend of mindhacks.com (and contributor to the Mind Hacks book) Alex Fradera. Blogging hasn’t started yet […]

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Misha

July 8, 2006 – 12:22 am

Hi, My name is Mijail “Misha” Serruya, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to join the other MindHacks editors to share my passion for basic and clinical neuroscience. I finished my combined MD/PhD training at Brown University, helped co-found Cyberkinetics, and am currently a House Officer in internal medicine in Providence, and expect to begin […]

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Christian

July 4, 2005 – 11:48 am

Hi, I’m a writer based in Brighton, contact me on christian[@]psychologywriter.org.uk

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Alex

January 22, 2005 – 7:22 pm

Summary details for Alex Fradera, author on mindhacks

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Vaughan

December 9, 2004 – 8:54 am

I’m one of the contributors to the book and have been kindly asked to write for mindhacks.com. I’m a clinical and research psychologist and there’s more about my work at my staff page. You can find me on Twitter here (@vaughanbell) where I also post various mind and brain snippets. License: I write because I […]

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Matt

November 30, 2004 – 8:28 pm

I guess I should introduce myself. I’m Matt Webb, I co-authored the book with Tom. Hello! Mostly I post notes to my personal weblog, Interconnected, and sites that I run across to the Mini Links–that’s probably the best way to find out what I’m interested in. What I’m not is a psychologist or neuroscientist (my […]

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Tom

November 30, 2004 – 8:12 pm

Hello. And I’m Tom Stafford, the other author of the book. While I was doing my degree and PhD I kept notes on lots of funny little things in psychology and neuroscience, although I never really knew why I was doing it. Then along came Matt and the idea for the book, and I had […]

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