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Beyond Belief: "the tepid confusing middle ground"

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28 Feb 2012

Jonathan Rowson

While preparing a funding application on a related subject, it felt serendipitous to hear ‘Start of the week’ on Radio Four last night by chance. A couple of quotes that were almost exactly what I was after:
Twitter is to humans as....grooming is to primates?

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27 Feb 2012

Jonathan Rowson

As I argued in Transforming Behaviour Change (see 'attention' in chp 5) I think new technologies pose important questions about how we regulate our attention. However, I also think the issue is important enough to tread cautiously about one's claims....there may be complex things to understand that might be lost if we lash out too generically, without grounding our concerns in evidence, or (even) arguiing from our own personal experience.
Williams to Dawkins: if consciousness is an illusion, what isn't?

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23 Feb 2012

Jonathan Rowson

I wish I was back in Oxford. If you are struggling to work or play, and bored of email and twitter, perhaps you need a dose of some good heavy chat... in which case go to the live debate between Neoatheist icon Richard Dawkins and The Archbishop of Cantebury Rowan Williams, chaired by Philosopher Anthony Kenny.
Social Norms(1): Breastfeeding in Public

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22 Feb 2012

Jonathan Rowson

I was slightly shocked to learn that Facebook have banned photographs of women breastfeeding. I know it can't be easy controlling 845 million users, but this particular decision strikes me as wrong on a number of levels.
Seriously, why do we drink alcohol?

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21 Feb 2012

Jonathan Rowson

Alastair Campbell’s Panorama documentary on Britain’s Hidden Alcoholics was a refreshing attempt to draw attention to the complexity of our alcohol problem. The programme revealed the full range of alcohol consumption patterns, from ritualistic social drinking in working class pubs to professionals quaffing wine like it was water, often alone at home. Campbell also shared the story of his own battles with drink, and made passing references to some of the policies that influence the supply of alcohol.
The Six Habits of Highly Empathic People

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16 Feb 2012

Jonathan Rowson

At lunchtime I chaired an event with Roman Krznaric that will soon be available to download from our website. In light of the event's intriguing title, and my current oppressive workload, I wanted just to list the six habits(from scribbles of shifting slides, so not verbatim), and add a little thoughtlet on each of them.
Don't believe everything you hear about belief.

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14 Feb 2012

Jonathan Rowson

A few months ago the RSA and New Humanist magazine tried to move along an important discussion that had become a little tired - New Atheism: What now for the Science Religion Debate?
Good, wise and happy

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13 Feb 2012

Matthew Taylor

Reader, if I say that West Brom’s 5-1 weekend victory over Wolves cheered me up only briefly, you will know the slough of despond through which I am now doggedly crawling. Still, life goes on, blogging is a welcome distraction and the comments posted to the previous posts on human development deserve some kind of response.
Is 'Spirituality' a Distinctly Capitalist Phenomenon?

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13 Feb 2012

Jonathan Rowson

"With the emergence of capitalist spirituality we are seeing an attempted takeover of the cultural space traditionally inhabited by "the religions" by a specific economic agenda"
21st century enlightenment

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09 Feb 2012

Matthew Taylor

As I said in Monday's post, the most important and difficult question about human development (in the sense of people in general attaining a 'higher' level of capability) may concern whether there are practical, reasonably large scale, examples of such development taking place as an intended consequence of specific interventions.

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Latest thinking

Beyond Belief: "the tepid confusing middle ground"

Twitter is to humans as....grooming is to primates?

Williams to Dawkins: if consciousness is an illusion, what isn't?

Social Norms(1): Breastfeeding in Public

Seriously, why do we drink alcohol?

The Six Habits of Highly Empathic People

Don't believe everything you hear about belief.

Good, wise and happy

Is 'Spirituality' a Distinctly Capitalist Phenomenon?

21st century enlightenment