Jim's Blog

Where’s my cloak is a cry that we’re getting closer to hearing when someone wants to be invisible and move silently away ...

An anti-phase game strategy is often required to win in two-person sports. When we first learn any two-person sport we are usua...

Embryonic learning can be important (apparently) for species that are on their own once they hatch from the egg. Hatchlin...

Too many distractions for lame ducks?

3D printed bio-bots are crawling about the Heartland. Not very rapidly it is true, but at ¼mm each second, just fast enou...

Too many teeth?

Placebos and pain control do not have a clear mechanism. Neuroimaging has shown that the belief in that the magic pill reduces ...

With so much information being freely available these days, it is easy to forget that people are also going to great len...

Social scientists and psychologists love to have us playing economic games. They usually give us l...

Our social psychologist friends love to play games to see how we behave. One of the games of choice used to study social...

Embryonic learning can be important (apparently) for species that are on their own once they hatch from the egg. Hatchlin...

Placebos and pain control do not have a clear mechanism. Neuroimaging has shown that the belief in that the magic pill reduces ...

Too many distractions for lame ducks?

An anti-phase game strategy is often required to win in two-person sports. When we first learn any two-person sport we are usua...

A gasbag hybrid that isn’t full of hot air is featured in today’s BBC UK News (1). English technology has taken a leap to...

3D printed bio-bots are crawling about the Heartland. Not very rapidly it is true, but at ¼mm each second, just fast enou...