Updates from Derren Brown and the Enigma Crew

Welcome to this weeks NEWS BLAST. All the links you send to us that we want to post but just don’t have room to:

This week we learned that physically taking a step back improves your thinking skills.

Researchers are attempting to predict the progress of dementia via spinal cord compounds, and are experimenting with new anti-Alzheimers drugs.

Birds brains have demonstrated signs of self-awareness thought to be restricted to certain mammalian species like ours and an “ingenious” 137-pound orangutan short-circuited an electric fence, built a platform, hopped over the wall surrounding her enclosure all clapped on by a bunch of gorillas.

Derren Brown Twitter fans are up despite 60% of Twitter users quitting within a month and yet the Queen of Jordan and various diplomats are giving it a shot.

Facebook has the thumbs-up from researchers giving a robot its own profile, and Derren Brown facebook fans leaped to over 15,000 in just 3 weeks – thanks to you all for the support – sorry it’s taken us so long to get it on.

We’d like to remind you that whilst recovering from a mild form of parrot flu – Derren personally launched a competition to win some goodies featuring random acts of kindness – despite Coops smashing Derrens laptop in a skateboarding accident.

Good news for art fans as the new DBArt store draws very close, and celebrations will be in place for Derrens manager Michael Vine who has just been made president of the Agents Association. Congratulations Michael from all of us.

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