I had to produce a brief reflexion for a Business analytics assignment. I eventually decided to post it on my blog as these points are generally forgotten from modeling/machine learning tutorials.

the storytelling of oxytocin about social brain and mental health

Water holds a key role in many spiritualities and cultures, maybe in all of them. It is also a substance that has been challenging Physics since the advent of modern science and analytic methods. Here I present the discovery by a young Tanzanian school boy, Erasto Mpemba, in 1963.

This question about the function of sleep and dream has been studied for centuries. The oldest texts on these topics are from Ancient Egypt. There is obviously a lot to say about sleep, not only in Humans but in other species. This post aims to provide a foretaste and a brief overview of Sleep in Humans. Note that today, despite a growing set of experimental and clinical research outcomes, we are far from having a coherent and full picture of the function(s) of Sleep. We only start to realise its importance and benefits. However, Dream remains quite a mystery.

In 2016, the Guardian published an article about the experimental remote control of mice brain using a protein called “Magneto” and another technique using heated nanoparticles. What is the aim of these research programmes in neuroscience? Can we really control the brain remotely and to which extent?

Evidence that Ancient Egypt were using synthetic chemical compounds for their cosmetics - 2000 BC .

Homo sapiens (sapiens= who knows, who is aware) shows a wide repertoire of behaviours and skills held to be unique : speaking, writing, cooking, building, burying the deads, hunting, farming, painting, creating, praying but also moral sense, social organisation, education of the offspring… A repertoire that many would be tempted to consider as the landmark of civilisation. Is this an assumption? or a fact?

Africa is a full of amazing archaeological treasures above our imagination. Is is that surprising for the continent where Homo sapiens was born?
This huge site in the Sahara desert contains the most important groupings of prehistoric cave art in the world. More than 15,000 drawings and engravings record the climatic changes, the animal migrations and the evolution of human life on the edge of the Sahara from 6000 BC to the first centuries of the present era.

A map dating from 1513 showing Antarctica almost 300 years before it was discovered (officially in 1820), but not only. Antarctica is represented without its ice cap. Plus the South American and African continents are correctly aligned in terms of their longitudinal positions. The author said he compiled several existing maps, but his sources are still debated.

Rocks formations on Jos Plateau