Category: Stories
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Healing migraines with a chat-bot
AI-everything is everywhere these days. Discover an item from your grocery delivery is missing? Log onto the computer and a chat-bot will efficiently refund your money for the missing item. Or, it gets into a strange, circular argument where it can’t understand what you want and can’t seem to forward…
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When no one believes
A while ago I did a post on how a very British lady called Sarah Colwill developed a Chinese accent after a severe migraine. The post included a reference to how Ms Colwill lost friends because they thought she was pretending (read more here). At the end of that post,…
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‘My’ first ever podcast episode
OK, so if you’ve visited my blog before, then you know that I feel very conflicted about AI. Two years ago, I was so excited to discover AI could make images for me with the push of a button… and then… the novelty wore off. Especially when the whole internet…
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Novel ways to be written off as a woman
As anyone with the internet knows, once you start reading certain posts, ‘The Algorithm’ starts feeding you more of the same. Sometimes, however, strange stories come through my news feed that feel random… or perhaps not. One such ‘news’ article that landed on my desk was “The most absurd female…
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Snakes on rods: a symbol of health (or stealth?)
OK, so I thought I knew something… but it turns out I only sort of knew about this something… and since it was super-trippy for me to discover the other half of what I knew about this fact, I thought it might be an eye-opener for you too, hence today’s…
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Bedroom… where are you?
People getting lost in their own home is a real thing. It’s a condition called Developmental Topographical Disorientation (DTD). It’s not the “where am I?” kind of moment that happens when you wake up from a Nanna-Nap and can’t remember how you got on the sun-lounger. It’s also not the…
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Time flies regardless of the fun-factor
Short post today, because time is tight. Seriously – where has this year gone?!? It feels like only yesterday I was having my New Year’s Revelation that we can be more than one version of ourselves… and now… 4 months have swept by in the blink of an eye… When…
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Do animals get migraines?
The answer to the question “do animals get migraines?” is apparently “yes”. But of course, an animal can’t articulate their suffering, so we can only make assumptions based on their behavior. The reason I thought to ask came out of a conversation with my blog-buddy Thomas who writes on his…
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We all have bad days
When I think of Charles Darwin, I think of an intellectual giant – someone who spent decades of his life investigating science and leaving behind an enormous legacy of thought-provoking research, such that he became a larger-than-life symbol of dedication and… …well, it turns out he was all of that,…