A Motorhead concert, a skip rope incident, and a dinner gone terribly wrong? These random stories make up Confabulation! an entertaining solo show about the phenomena of creating false memories. Using the autobiographical experience of writer and performer Eamonn Fleming, Confabulation! takes a storytelling approach to answer the mysteries surrounding memory science and how our […]
Around the world, visual health warnings on cigarettes intentionally provide a disturbing picture of the damage smoking can cause to the human body. It has been acknowledged for several decades that tobacco use is dangerous. However, it is only recently that scientists have discovered the extent to which cigarettes can cause harm on the molecular […]
Following a near-death experience, Levi Felix, a burnt out 24-year old, traded in his laptop for a backpack and travelled the world for two and a half years, experiencing a digital free life alongside his partner Brooke Dean. When Felix and Dean returned to the US, they found a world where people seemed to be […]
The North Sea is getting oily. And it is not just because of the recent oil spill at Clair Oil Rig, which released 95 tonnes of oil into the North Sea. According to a recent survey from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), accidental releases of oil and chemicals in the North Sea are at […]
Dug, the talking dog from the movie Up; beach corgi days; and thousands of Instagram posts devoted to our furry best friends. It is no secret that we love our dogs, but how do they feel about us? What is going on in their doggy heads? According to Dr Deidre Barnett, a Clinical and Evolutionary […]