Author: KB
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Outbrain, In Your Brain: If Dream-Hacking Is Coming, Advertisers Will Be Licking Their Lips
A friend sent me this TED talk the other day. It’s a really fascinating look into how (in very simplistic terms) neuroscience is beginning to ‘hack’ into our brains, and locate exactly where different thoughts are lodged. The presenter is funny, and tells a good story about how the BBC had latched onto one speculative…
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Getting High – A Reader’s Guide
For those of you who have already begun the book, or are awaiting delivery, I thought it might be helpful to post a kind of field-guide to the text. That’s not to say — I hope — that it doesn’t stand alone, but for those who are interested in delving into some of the background…
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Don’t Tread Softly (Though You Tread on My Dreams)
It’s always a strange time in the run up to a book being published. Mostly, there’s a sense of excitement. But there’s also a degree of nervousness. Will people ‘get it’? Will people think it’s any good? I was thinking about this the other day, and was reminded of Yeats’ poem The Cloths of Heaven:…
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The Wolfpack, Cinema and the Yearning for Freedom
Warning: contains some spoiler material If you haven’t yet seen The Wolfpack, I’d strongly encourage you to do so. It’s a very very fine documentary film following the story of a group of 6 brothers who have grown up virtually locked away by their father in an apartment on the Lower East Side of New…
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Good Friday | Book Review: ‘God is Unconscious’
I’ll cut to the chase: if you are at all interested in what theology is — and who we are as people interested in it — then you should read Tad Delay’s God is Unconscious. Go buy it here (UK) or here (US). It’s perhaps the ideal Good Friday read because it gets further to the heart…
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Writing Update
As you may know, for the past year I’ve been working on a major new book provisionally titled Getting High. It’s ostensibly a history of the long quest for flight, and uses the lens of the 1960s to examine how we have used drugs, religion and technology to achieve this goal. It’s been enormous fun to…