Jerry Brotton

3 weeks ago | airmail.news | Jim Kelly |Clay Risen |Binnie Kirshenbaum |Jerry Brotton

Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America by Clay Risen Given today’s headlines, are you feeling nostalgic for a previous time, say, the 1950s, a period that for many too young to have lived through it may think the TV sitcom Happy Days captured the decade?

Nov 18, 2024 | taipeitimes.com | Jerry Brotton

By Jerry Brotton / The Guardian We’ve lost direction and our brains are shrinking — at least, our hippocampi are. These seahorse-shaped parts of the brain measure about 5cm, sit just above both ears and drive our spatial awareness and orientation. London taxi drivers, famed for taking the Knowledge, a test that involves memorizing the central streets of the capital, have full-sized hippocampi.

Nov 17, 2024 | msn.com | Jerry Brotton

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Nov 17, 2024 | theguardian.com | Jerry Brotton

We’ve lost direction and our brains are shrinking – at least, our hippocampi are. These seahorse-shaped parts of the brain measure about 5cm, sit just above both ears and drive our spatial awareness and orientation. London taxi drivers, famed for taking the Knowledge, a test that involves memorising the central streets of the capital, have full-sized hippocampi. But in 2011, neuroscientists at University College London discovered that the cabbies’ hippocampi shrunk significantly after retirement.

Nov 15, 2024 | lithub.com | Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton on the Diverse Origins of the Language of Cardinal Directions Humans do not have an innate neurological toolbox like animals, but they do possess language.