The toll of the bells at midnight on New Year’s Eve has always been an unmistakable usher for change, albeit the transition itself from one year to the next, or…
Since time immemorial, our partially evolved and imperfect species have marked and charted the passing of our days not simply by the cycles of the moon, or the changing of…
What fascinates and troubles me about the brain is what it wants and desires. I’m always acutely aware of the limits of my own free will: eat less, exercise more,…
New Year, Same Old
The toll of the bells at midnight on New Year’s Eve has always been an unmistakable usher for change, albeit the transition itself from one year to the next, or…
Dry January: ‘a secular penance’?
Since time immemorial, our partially evolved and imperfect species have marked and charted the passing of our days not simply by the cycles of the moon, or the changing of…
The chemical of motivation
What fascinates and troubles me about the brain is what it wants and desires. I’m always acutely aware of the limits of my own free will: eat less, exercise more,…