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“The People vs. Democracy”– a quick review
If you’re interested in politics, then I recommend the video recording of yesterday’s presentation at London’s RSA by Yascha Mounk. Mounk is a Lecturer on Government at Harvard University, a Senior...
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Technological unemployment – Why it’s different this time
On Tuesday last week I joined members of “The Big Potatoes” for a spirited discussion entitled “Automation Anxiety”. Participants became embroiled in questions such as: To what extent will increasingly...
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Six steps to climate catastrophe
In a widely read Rolling Stone article from July 2012, “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math”, Bill McKibben introduced what he called Three simple numbers that add up to global catastrophe. The three...
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Why good people are divided by politics and religion
I’ve lost count of the number of people who have thanked me over the years for drawing their attention to the book “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom” written by Jonathan...
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Understanding humans better by understanding evolution better
Many aspects of human life that at first seem weird and hard to explain can make a lot more sense once you see them from the viewpoint of evolution. It was Richard Dawkins’ book “The Selfish Gene”...
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Achieving a 130-fold improvement in 40 years
One reason I like London so much is the quality of debate and discussion that takes place, at least three times most weeks, at the RSA. The full name of this organisation is “the Royal Society for the...
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