Sitemap - 2023 - Brain Pizza by Shane O'Mara
Altered States: Rewiring cravings (Part two)
Altered states: Navigating the hunger game (Part one)
'There is no magic pill. There are no shortcuts. There are only reps, reps, reps.'
Let's Talk: How we use conversation to create our shared worlds
Let's Talk: How we use conversation to create our shared worlds
Aerobic exercise is good for the brain
Dodgy knees and ankles: what is to be done?
October readings: what I've been reading, thinking about, and listening to
Thinking about the future: Our cognitive blindspots
BrainPizza September recap (yes, it's October)
Thoughts on three years of substacking
Break on through to the other side
You may not be interested in change, but change is interested in you
The people who stop you getting things done (part one)
How to write books - collected pieces
“Old man yells at cloud”: melancholy, world-weary, with a little self-serving bellicosity
Notes on a neuroscience of nationalism (repost, with some extras, inc podcasts)
Talking Heads is now published...
Dark thoughts, and how to avoid them
Only disconnect: The pain of 'just thinking'
How fear and pain rewire the brain, and what might be done about it
Hypersleep in Aliens, torpor in animals
The myth of the magical city: Why I hated Paris, why I was wrong, and what New York taught me
'Eat less, exercise more' is useless advice; Our activity levels are up.
Talking Heads: The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds
Our love for vengeance shapes how we punish
In praise of 'mindlessness' - escaping self
Isolated, Contained, Excised, and Despised
Our future self: The stranger we are unable to imagine, and yet will come be
Building a Better Future: A Radical Proposal to Overcome NIMBYism
Connecting the Mỹ Lai Massacre and Milgram's Obedience Studies
AI: Boosterism and Doomerism (part 3)
AI Anxiety: Be sceptical of your own thoughts and fears, please (Part 1)
Social life: The people around you are inside your head
Regarding distress, and the biological roots of empathy
Biological economics: 'Live fast, die young’; ‘live slow, die old’
How Great Storytelling Lingers in the Mind
Surviving Combat: The Effects of Predator Stress on Brain and Body