This month's episode features Mark Humphries, author of "The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds." We explore how the brain uses electrical signaling in surprising ways, beginning with a look at how an action potential (aka. "the spike") is produced. Then we consider what Humphries calls "the dark n

On this week's Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea asks what happens when our neurons fire? He'll be talking to Professor Mark Humphries - Chair in Computational Neuroscience at the University of Nottingham and author of ‘The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds’ Also on the show, Jonathan is joined by

Mark and I discuss his book, The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds. It chronicles how a series of action potentials fire through the brain in a couple seconds of someone's life. Starting with light hitting the retina as a person looks at a cookie, Mark describes how that light gets translated into

Mark Humphries (7.30 / The Feed) has never seen perhaps the greatest musical of all time GREASE... until now! Master satirist & fan of musicals Mark Humphries sits down with Pete to chat about the John Travolta & Olivia Newton John classic from 1978, the two notes that prevented Mark from having ever watched Grease, th