Do Goldfish have a longer attention span than American Internet Users?

If what you read on the Internet is to be trusted – and let’s face it the Internet never lies, then I have around eight seconds to convince you that this article is worth reading because most of you have an average attention span that’s slightly worse than […]

Plebgate and the Illusion of Memory

Okay, so Plebgate is back in the news today because Keith Wallis, the Metropolitan Police Officer who false claimed to have witnessed the incident in an email sent to his local MP has admitted a charge of misconduct in public office and offered to resign from the force. […]

Poor memory? Blame evolution, not Google.

If you mooch around the science sections of popular news websites this weekend then chances are you’ll encounter something called ‘The Google Effect’. From what I can tell, the BBC’s report started out the headline “Internet is ‘changing our memory'” but have since backed off a little and […]