Full interview on the Manchester City case below.

Yesterday I joined leading figures from the world of sport at Lord’s Cricket Ground to support Alzheimer’s Society. One million people in the UK are living with dementia, now the country’s leading cause of death. or to learn more about Alzheimer’s visit alzheimers.org.uk/sport

The Premier League on the other hand fought a lengthy + expensive legal arbitration against City to force them to disclose ALL relevant documents. Long story short, City fought it at every level and lost…

Burnham is stuck in the 1980s on this. Just support your local pub instead theguardian.com/football/202…

“Most countries have been slow to realise just how threatened they are by the weaponisation of collective stupidity”. @GeoffMulgan writes for @ArguablyMag on what “cognitive rearmament” would look like and why you should care about it. arguably.uk/p/collective-stu…

The latest episode of the Brain podcast-out now! Listen at: traffic.libsyn.com/ec9881f0-… Featuring discussion with senior author Professor Gültekin Tamgüney on: Vaccines mimicking conformational epitopes on α-synuclein fibrils provide immunity to Parkinson’s disease

Tony Pulis knows everybody in football

One of England's most charismatic, joyful cricketers, a World Cup winner, an Ashes winner, and probably their fastest ever bowler. 🫡

People say there are fewer world class players as there were in previous generations but has there every been a better selection of wingers as Mbappe Yamal Kvara Olisse?

Gambling should not be legal, obviously.

An extraordinary @Nature paper has just landed from the lab of @Sergiu_P_Pasca at @Stanford - led by Konstantin Kaganovsky. They have found a way to create "xenocortical mice" which have ~92% of their cortex occupied by a cortical organoid derived from human stem cells. This human-derived cortical graft integrates deeply with the host nervous system, supporting organised neural activity and behaviour. This study is a milestone in synthetic biology and chimera research. It has the potential to generate multiple medical breakthroughs by providing an enhanced biological model of human brain tissue that allows behavioural as well as neural and genetic assays. The Stanford team have been exceptionally thorough and proactive in addressing ethical concerns that comes from this frontier work. But their pioneering work nonetheless raises many open questions: are the xenocortical mice conscious? Do they have any human-like properties of consciousness or cognition? @NitaFarahany and I will be addressing some of these questions in a forthcoming commentary - where we'll also offer an ethically-informed roadmap to guide this important research as it progresses. In this context, "pacing the frontier" really does make sense 😉 Read the Stanford @nature paper here, and buckle up. It's wild. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

RT @sapinker: Self-driving cars will transform life for the better. open.substack.com/pub/humanp…

10+10 would do nicely

It’s interesting how often these graphs reveal massive outliers

Lovely example of incrementally beneficial steps in cancer medicine. Dementia barely at the start of this process.

Joshua Kimmich solves all of our problems.