Category: Brain Yapping

Donald Trump is repeatedly insisting that he has great cognitive abilities because he passed a cognitive test. But that’s not how they work says Dean Burnett.

Dr Dean Burnett has had enough of people insisting on happiness.

In part two of his The Pandemic Brain mini-series, Dean Burnett looks at why so many people are buying so much toilet roll.

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Dean Burnett is fronting a campaign this year to combat the pseudo science of Blue Monday.

A recent article in The Observer has inspired our own Dr Dean Burnett to recount his vasectomy, and how too often contraception is viewed as a woman’s problem.

After director Todd Phillips said it was too hard to do comedy these days many, including Marc Maron, disagreed. So Dean Burnett looks at the science of ‘edgy’ comedy.

Today is GCSE results day in the UK. Fifteen- and sixteen-year olds all across the country will be finding out how well they’ve done in the exams they recently sat, the ones they spent two years studying for. Dean Burnett investigates.

The contest to replace Theresa May as leader of the conservative party is well underway, so Dean Burnett takes a scientific look at the scientific credentials of the candidates.