A few years ago, I made a throw-away comment. “The Narcolepsy UK annual conference is easily my favourite weekend of the year.” When the words left my lips, I’m not sure I really meant them, but I have come to
My favourite weekend of the year
How to sleep better
The annual conference of Narcolepsy UK is, without question, my favourite weekend of the year. On any normal day, I spend most of my time wishing I didn’t have narcolepsy, a chronic, incurable neurological disorder that destroys healthy sleep. But
A rich soup of ideas
When it comes to an explanation for the origin of life, there’s only one thing that scientists agree on: we still don’t have one. Perhaps 4 billion years ago, life arose in the tempestuous environment of the immature Earth. Quite