“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards” – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Kirsty McLean investigates the daunting world of false memories and memory manipulation.
Category: Social Sciences
The Water Innovation Challenge Launch
Water. We all drink it, but how many of us think it? theGIST reports from The Water Innovation Challenge launch party.
Glasgow Science Festival Event: ‘Science Sunday’
The Science Sunday at Glasgow University on the 14th of June was a great way to mark the end of the 2015 Glasgow Science Festival. The event encapsulated everything that the festival aims to...
Glasgow Science Festival Event: ‘The Value of Suffering’
For the first time, Glasgow Science Festival has worked in partnership with the Department of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow to bring us ‘The Value of Suffering’. Suffering is defined as the state...
Glasgow Science Festival Event: ‘Café Sci: Looking for Light’
“What do fiction and science have in common? An evening of musing by Pippa Goldschmidt and Professor Martin Hendry.” At Mono on Wednesday evening, Café Scientifique hosted Pippa Goldschmidt, acclaimed author and ex-astronomer, and...
Glasgow Science Festival Event: ‘Moon’
Two astronomers and a clinical psychologist walk into a cinema… Glasgow Film Theatre was the venue for a special Glasgow Science Festival screening of Duncan Jones’ 2009 sci-fi film Moon, where protagonist Sam Bell...
Glasgow Science Festival Event ‘Vision, Perception & Illusion’
Are we just living in the Matrix? How can you be sure everything you perceive isn’t just a hallucination? Are you actually reading this sentence or merely think you are reading it?
Glasgow Science Festival Event ‘The Perfect Meal’
Put simply, stop reading Yelp! reviews before you hit a new restaurant. Just go.
