I have been acquired. I'm still getting used to the term, and to saying it without sniggering; but I'm getting there. When I look back three years ago, coming home from hospital, a shuffling old lady with wild hair, walking stick and huge owl-like eyes, I didn't really see much of a future...in fact, I didn't see anything at all. Yet, I made my legs move every day, even just lifting my concrete feet to step outside and feel the cool breeze on my face. It was movement and that meant progress,...

Ask a child what is cleverer - a brain or a computer? and you get a volley of conflicting answers thrown back at you. I can vouch for this personally, as I stood in front of a room full of ten year olds earlier this year and put that exact question to them. I was fascinated that the initial consensus was that a computer was cleverer; until a few bright sparks chipped in that actually...brains were more clever as it was a human brain that invented the computer. I liked their thinking.  A...

Sometimes we don't know where we are going, until we get there… I’m convinced someone highly influential has already uttered those prophetic words; if not, then somebody really should have. The very start of this enterprise, this mission, wasn’t anything tangible, it didn’t even really have any physical shape. It just had a story. But a story won’t ever be told without a voice; and in this case it is my voice, with its northern twang and acerbic directness that you hear. The only motive I can...

I hate science: well that's what I would have spouted, hands on hip, blinking my fringe out of my eyes, aged 13. I was so disenchanted with all things Bunsen burner and periodic tables that I acquired a spectacular 'unclassified' result in my O'levels (giving away my age there)It’s therefore slightly surreal, uplifting and positively ironic that I have now, in later life, created an immersive exhibition….based on neuroscience. Chewing the fat and discussing the project over a cup of tea with a...