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Controlling your brain activity: how to use Jedi mind tricks on yourself

The Science Basement
February 22, 2023September 7, 2023
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What is neurofeedback and something science fiction-y called a brain-computer interface? How can you learn to control your mind? Did you know you can indirectly measure brain…

Why do we talk differently to different people?

Kenia Fita Capdevila
February 14, 2023March 27, 2023
Blogging Science, In depth, Intersection Theme, Intersection Theme - Blogging, Social Sciences

Anecdotes about roommates who change their usual voice, vocabulary and even grammar structure when on the phone with their parents. Social media threads discussing whether it is normal to unconsciously mimic the dialect or accent of the person you are talking to.

Calming the itch: the skin microbiome & atopic dermatitis

Kenia Fita Capdevila
February 1, 2023March 6, 2023
Blogging Science, Health & Medicine, In depth, Intersection Theme, Intersection Theme - Blogging

“We tried to calm him in every possible way, but he cried and shouted all night”, desperately declared the Coopers about their three-year-old suffering from severe atopic dermatitis. Stories like this are more common than you think in paediatric and dermatologic wards.