The Neurobiology of Action Lab at the Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme is focused on the study of actions and how we do things. One main goal of action learning is to understand how brain […]
Do rats feel regret?
It’s last week, my fridge is empty. I hop onto a train with two restaurants in mind: restaurant 1 is just one station away, while restaurant 2 has a hazelnut mousse that sends […]
Oh man, learn to dance
Dance is a fundamental form of human expression and communication consisting of movements and shapes which can be induced through music, but also detached from any external source of sound. The motivation to dance throughout cultures […]
Without Science the World Stops
Saturday, 15th of February 2014, ten minutes before 15 o’clock. A bunch of people romp about at Praça Luis de Camões, Lisboa. There is a group of people playing rhythmic music, music that […]
Music and the Brain
Do you like music? One would be hard-pressed to find someone who does not enjoy any type of music. Musicality is a trait that we share with birds and some other mammals such […]
Telling fact from fiction: a rationalist’s job
We are bombarded with misleading or even downright false ‘facts’ all the time. These can range from a sensationalist headline, the claims of quacks and charlatans, or even to more serious absurdities proposed […]
Oh Math!
Mathematics used to be the subject from school days where we LEARN how to sum, we MEMORIZE the multiplication table, we ADAPT to the calculator, we are CHALLENGED by real life problems, we […]
I am writing from a distant Future
Dear reader: I am writing from a distant Future. A time where words like school, teacher and education have acquired new meanings. Schools are not limited to walls, neighborhoods or cities anymore. Teachers […]
A makeshift classroom: education’s in the air!
Right now, I’m in a room full of people, most of whom I’ve never spoken to. But there’s one thing I know we have in common: we have spent the majority of our […]
Are you up to an enhancement?
Current exponential technological advances have sparked extensive debates regarding human enhancements, and where the limit lies between what is and not human, what is and not ethical. But what exactly is human enhancement? […]