A study conducted by researchers at the University of Southampton and Lancaster University found that there may be a greater link between the immune response to Alzheimer’s, and the memory and behavioural problems seen in sufferers, than previously thought. A characteristic feature of Alzheimer’s disease is the gradual accumulation and...
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The final episode of our War and Peace series blog is here, with Paul Dano as Pierre Bezukhov stealing the show one last time
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From family tensions to the Battle of Borodino, Jordan Hindson recaps what happens in the penultimate episode of BBC War and Peace
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We're past the mid-point with BBC War and Peace: Episode 4, and things are getting lovey-dovey
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Boar Film reviews Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's simultaneously brutal and beautiful tale of frontier survival.
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Duels, balls, and a few pitfalls – Jordan Hindson recaps Episode 3 of BBC War and Peace
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The rigorous study of neuroscience and human psychology has always been hindered by a fundamental difficulty; experimental procedures are, traditionally, only ever reliable and statistically accurate in a heavily controlled laboratory setting. The behaviour of human subjects is therefore significantly altered by the knowledge that they are in a lab...
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War wounds, fatal childbirth, and illicit affairs: the BBC keeps it light in the second episode of War and Peace
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How will we ever keep up with all these Russian people? Luckily Jordan Hindson is here to guide us through the new BBC adaption of Tolstoy's War and Peace
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A team of clinicians in Toronto has managed to non-invasively deliver chemotherapeutic drugs directly through the blood-brain barrier into a brain tumour. It is faintly ironic that the most effective of the human body’s defences often themselves make the practise of medicine much more difficult. The best example of this is...
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New research from the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases has suggested that the genetic element to Alzheimer’s might take affect much earlier in life than previously thought. Alzheimer’s was once thought of as an old person’s disease which picked off the kind and the brilliant, the healthy and the unhealthy indiscriminately.
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Boar author, Jordan writes a fantastic review of Jamison's moving account of the highs and lows of manic depression
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Jordan Hindson defends Richard Dawkins' genius and aptitudes against his controversial public declarations
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