Can our minds heal our bodies?

New podcast episode with New York Times Bestselling Author Jo Marchant!

We talk about Jo’s fascinating book Cure, where she applies her PhD mind to ask the divisive questions on placebo, mind/body medicine and pain

🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0wLj0g…

More evidence for the importance of being able to form a human connection with your doctor theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Another one from the great Jo Marchant : The origins of the decimal points are traced back to the Italian Renaissance
nature.com/articles/d4158…

Congrats Anil Ananthaswamy! Really excited to read this

Epic breakthrough on the Herculaneum scrolls! Three students have used AI to reveal an ancient essay on pleasure, scooping them the Vesuvius Challenge grand prize. Here’s my story for @nature nature.com/articles/d4158… Vesuvius Challenge

The new episode of #MysteriesofScience is now live! This week we're investigating the Antikythera Mechanism with Jo Marchant Tatiana Bur and Sam Sedgman.

🎧 Listen now at funkidslive.com/mysteries

The movement of the sun, moon, and stars used to be the very definition of the movement of time. Find out more in this episode at restoringdarkness.com, with Jo Marchant @jomarchant (jomarchant.com), author of 'The Human Cosmos: Civilisation and the Stars.'

The latest issue of DarkSky International Nightscape mag is out incl an interview with Jo Marchant on how the stars shaped humanity and a peek inside the first DarkSky resort Under Canvas® Lake Powell. To subscribe, become a member of DarkSky & support the night darksky.org/ways-to-give/ 🌌🌠

DarkSky International do amazing work fighting to save our view of the stars ✨I’m excited to be giving keynote lecture to kick off their 2023 Under One Sky global conference, online starting TONIGHT. Join us if you can! conference.darksky.org @idadarksky_intl #UnderOneSky2023

New analysis of human footprints at New Mexico’s White Sands National Park supports earlier radiocarbon dating putting their age between 23,000 and 21,000 years ago—5,000 years earlier than previous evidence for North America’s earliest human presence.

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For anyone interested in the brilliance, passion and determination that has gone into making the Herculaneum scrolls readable, here’s my feature for Smithsonian Magazine written in 2018 smithsonianmag.com/history/buried…

Here's a deep dive into the AI reading technique caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2023/08/05/rea…

I blogged about it here goodinternet.substack.com/p/good-links-2…

First text from inside intact Herculaneum scrolls! And they’ll have more very soon… My piece for nature - most exciting story I’ve worked on in a long time nature.com/articles/d4158…

Congrats!

I’ll be talking about the mind-body connection at this pioneering and thoughtful festival, coming up later this month

Thank you! So glad you liked it

Thanks to the brilliant people at @wondrium for publishing my new lecture course on the mind-body connection - it’s out this week! wondrium.com/the-power-of-m…

Congrats Ian Sample! 😀

Honoured to be recognised at the #abswawards . Here’s my story, on the discovery of a lost ancient star map. One for the next Indy movie maybe?! #indianajones nature.com/articles/d4158…

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