A few interesting nuggets

In researching material for recent post ( here ) I found a few interesting nuggets (side-projects, if you will). The first tip I heard was a...

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Search and AI brain rot

A recent post was about some research on the lack of brain activity when using AI tools ( here ; Kosmyna et al., 2025; McBain, 2025). What I...

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AI does rot the brain

While I have written about AI before ( here ), there is research showing that regular use of LLM apps - such as Claude.ai and ChatGPT - appe...

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The vagaries of memory

We have all heard how eye witness testimony can be wrong: where witnesses can go from 100% sure to being proven to be gob-smackedly incorrec...

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The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain

I have been reading Barbara Strauch's 2010 book, "The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain". The book tackles our ageing bra...

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