My new essay 'Injury and inhibition', published today on Aeon.co discusses the life and legacy of Phineas Gage, who survived a brain injury in 1848 and went on to become one of the most frequently-cited neuropsychology case studies of all time.

When I started researching my recent BBC essay, one question in the back of my mind was, how am I going to draw a black hole? There...

During the 1980s, when I was something less than ten years old, my brother and I auditioned for roles in a stage adaptation of Rudyard...