- Guardian article by shadow cancellor and richard thaler: we want to ’embed behavioural thinking throughout government’
- Johann Hari: “What about X?” as a rhetorical trick
- Online collaborative doodling: skrbl.com
- Your rights to a refund on an unused rail ticket are covered by National Rail Conditions of Carriage, section 26
- Press release from University of Sheffield about the Rough Guide Book of Brain Training
- Guardian: ‘Turkish girl, 16, buried alive for talking to boys’
- Dougald’s guide to Twitter “it’s like having a little part of you that’s always down the pub!”
- FT.com: Moscow’s Stray Dogs
- Quinn Norton had a magnet implanted under the skin of her finger, allowing her to sense electromagnetic fields
- ‘Avatar is a fantasy about ceasing to be white, giving up the old human meatsack to join the blue people, but never losing white privilege’
- ‘Politics, according to Berger, ‘begins with asking oneself questions. Everybody, when they wake up at two or three in the morning, asks themselves these questions – but no discourse encourages them.’
- LaMarre, H. L., Landreville, K. D., & Beam, M. A. (2009). The Irony of Satire: Political Ideology and the Motivation to See What You Want to See in The Colbert Report. International Journal of Press/Politics, 14(2), 212-231. doi: 10.1177/1940161208330904.
- YouTube: Animal Hypnosis and Trances
- Hemmingway’s Five Rules for writing well
- Diedre McClosky on how she realised that (economic) science was unavoidably affected by ideology.
- Steve Fuller letter in the Guardian: it makes no sense to talk about what people “naturally are” without socioeconomic constraints
- Big Brother Watch
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