I have had a busy week and have had little time to think deeply about a topic for my blog, but there were a couple of images that kept coming to mind when I was thinking about what the topic should be and they all involved having fun. I realised that I remember nothing of the things that needed to be done during my busy week. The only things I really
I have just been reading an article in Cosmos, a magazine about the ‘science of everything’ (thanks Jennifer). The article was about tickling rats and making them laugh (rats laugh ultrasonically, apparently). It also talked about the laboratory rats exhibiting all of the same basic emotions as humans: fear, joy, anger, and love. Electrical stimulation of particular parts of the brain produced the same results in those laboratory rats, as