Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
Motherboard on a legal rights framework for biohacking the brain. Caveat hax0r no?
There Is a Doppelganger Inside All Our Heads. Interesting piece in Nautilus.
Discover Magazine covers the latest study on using electrical stimulation to increase the chance of lucid dreaming.
The seductive allure of a brain scanner made out of an old hair dryer. The mighty Neurocritic covers a curious study.
BPS Research Digest covers an interesting study on sex lives following lower limb amputation.
Turns out there are interesting financial interests behind the ‘neuroscience in the classroom’ movement. Coverage by the Headquarters blog.
Mosaic has an excellent piece on one person’s quest to understand an existence dominated by the bleakest, darkest moods.
Study linking brain cancer and mobiles inconclusive. NHS Choices covers study widely reported as “We’re doomed. Doomed, I tell you!ā
Why We Took Cocaine Out of Soda. Mainly racism as it turns out. Article in The Atlantic.
Elder statesfolk of cognitive neuroscience Uta and Chris Frith have started an excellent blog called Social Minds.
Daily News on American politicians throwing neuropsychological insults around. I’ll vote for the first one who gets a basal ganglia dig in.
There’s an interesting piece on ‘supertaskers‘ – the 2% of people who can multitask without dropping their performance level over at The New Yorker.
Mind Hacks 
Perhaps the supertaskers over at the New Yorker are one emdash short of a sentence.