Addiction to Certainty has been with us since the first brain learned to recognize a pattern in fire, in predators, in the seasons. Our neurons are wired to crave predictability, to seek the comfort of knowing what comes next. Ideology [read more...]
Puppy farms. The name alone sounds like something out of a Pixar spinoff — fuzzy optimism in pastel colors. But peel back the chew toys and heart emojis, and you’ll find one of the murkiest corners of modern compassion: the [read more...]
Dragons weren’t just the fever dreams of medieval artists—they left traces, hints, and echoes throughout history, from bones misidentified as giants to elaborate engravings and paintings. The evidence is scattered, hidden in plain sight, and often dismissed by mainstream science. [read more...]
A Neurodope Magazine look at commercial spaceflight, billionaire ego, and societal priorities in the new space race. Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Richard Branson—are these ventures about progress or just self-promotion and marketing stunts? Who’s funding what, and what does it [read more...]
It turns out that our brain scans are more useful than we thought. Thanks to the wonders of artificial intelligence, we can now recycle those old, low-resolution clinical MRI scans and turn them into high-resolution 3D objects that reveal something [read more...]
We scroll faster than we think. The average human attention span—once compared to a goldfish—has now been replaced by something less flattering: a flickering LED. The more stimulation we receive, the less we care. The new generations aren’t lazy—they’re tired. [read more...]
Imagine a place where seas aren’t water but liquid methane, and life doesn’t breathe oxygen. Cornell researchers modeled cells that could exist there, life forms so alien they make Earth bacteria look like toddlers playing in a sandbox. Methane Cells [read more...]
Life holds too much. Emotional baggage, habits, attachments—they pile up and weigh the brain down. The book: Elimination: The Buddhist Methodology for Letting Go and Moving On by Chip Von Gunten (editor of Neurodope Magazine - yours truly) shows that [read more...]
The Earth has been speaking forever; we just finally learned how to listen. Before satellites, sensors, and seismographs, humans already knew something was rumbling below. It wasn’t prophecy or magic—it was pattern recognition, carved in clay and bone. The oldest [read more...]
