- Tom Slee on the contradiction at the heart of Tim Harford’s Adapt
- Jerry Seinfeld (channelling George Ainslie) offers productivity advice for writers
- Coaching psychologist, based in London: Realizing your potential from an evidence-based perspective Dr. Anne Hsu, PhD
- Shilzi offers a thought experiment on economic efficiency: ‘The larger point is that while what is technologically efficient depends on facts of nature, what is economically efficient is a function of our social arrangements, of who owns how much of what. Economic efficiency may be a good tool, but it is perverse to serve your own tools, and monstrous to be ruled by them’
- Ian Martin missed “project US”
- Welcome to the Sigma Scan – a searchable repository for horizon scanning papers, designed for government users>
- Foresight’s Horizon Scanning Centre has built this toolkit: Exploring the future: Tools for strategic thinking
- Award winning radio documentary by Dan Box following the soldiers, and the families, of the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Regiment over their seven-month deployment to Afghanistan.
- Colman, R. J., Anderson, R. M., Johnson, S. C., Kastman, E. K., Kosmatka, K. J., Beasley, T. M., Allison, D. B., et al. (2009). Caloric Restriction Delays Disease Onset and Mortality in Rhesus Monkeys Science, 325(5937), 201 -204. doi:10.1126/science.1173635
- The End of Evil? Neuroscientists suggest there is no such thing. Are they right?
- News summary by Christian Jarrett of a new article by Scott Lilienfeld about the public’s scepticism of psychology
- Jonah Lehrer The Advantages of Tourette’s Studies of those with tourettes offer further evidence that self control can be trained
- Charles Fernyhough on The nature of thought, language, inner speech and Vygotsky
- ‘More and more, I’m finding myself inclined to think that philosophical reflection about ethical issues is, on average, morally useless’
- ‘Anthropology knows that what currently exists does not have to be. Anthropology knows more about capitalism than any other academic discipline.’
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