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Sci-fi: speculation as art form

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05 Apr 2009

Much of the art around climate is about imagining new futures. Rubbing up against visions of the future is a good way to reconsider the present. Sci-fi is the daddy of that concept, so it's interesting to see EcoGeek doing a series of really excellent in-depth interviews with US sci-fi authors.
The Fogg Behaviour Model

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03 Apr 2009

Behaviour models are a way to understand the factors that drive particular behaviours. The best known comes from economics and is the theory of rational man (or homo economicus). Rational man theory simply says that people decide how to behave by weighing up the costs and benefits of each choice, and choose the action that maximises their expected benefits.
Has the National Curriculum had its day?

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03 Apr 2009

The government's defensive response to the select committee's recommendation that the National Curriculum take up no more than 50% of the timetable is as frustrating as it is predictable.
Respond! - or how we can make the most noise

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03 Apr 2009

Anyone who's subscribed to the RSA Arts & Ecology site newsletter will have already had this info, but for those who are not, Arts & Ecology in conjunction with Bash Creations are initiating Respond! as a way of highlighting events thorughout the UK - across all art forms - that deal with ecological issues. By networking us all together the idea is we can create that bigger splash. To wit:
When artists fail to read the small print

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02 Apr 2009

Caleb Klaces makes a point in his review of Marcel Theroux's new novel, Far North, on the main RSA Arts & Ecology website: the moment when Theroux starts to try and create a plausible scientific scenario for the catastrophic future in which his novel is set is the point where you start going, "Umm. Really?"
Against Evidence-Based Policy

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01 Apr 2009

While scanning the recently published POSTnotes in the course of writing this rather negative post, I came across one called "Lessons from History" [pdf], which opens with:
News in the POST

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31 Mar 2009

POST's (the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology - who provide parliament with policy analysis on science and technology issues) most recent POSTnote is called "Delaying Gratification" and is clearly aimed at policy makers and civil servants interested in all things Nudge. The main thrust of its message is that people have a bias towards short-term rewards over longer-term benefits, and opens with a paragraph that says:
Antony Gormley and snobbery

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24 Mar 2009

Ben Street at Art21 | Blog is among those who sneer at Antony Gormley's One And Other, the sculpture that will be installed on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Squre, London, from July 4. The piece consists of 2400 members of the public standing on the fourth plinth, one at a time. Volunteers submit their names to the One And Other website and have their names chosen, apparently at random. Street sniffs:
T S Eliot prizewinner Jen Hadfield on RSA Arts & Ecology

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23 Mar 2009

I've posted an interview with the poet Jen Hadfield up on the main site. I'll admit I hadn't even heard of her until she won the T S Eliot Award a few weeks ago, but Nigh-No-Place turns out to be really great for its vivid, unruly, close-up-view poems about life in the back-0f beyond.
Happy Thaler-Day

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23 Mar 2009

As well as being my Mum's birthday (which is much more important), you'd be forgiven for thinking that today was National Richard Thaler Day in the UK.

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Latest thinking

Sci-fi: speculation as art form

The Fogg Behaviour Model

Has the National Curriculum had its day?

Respond! - or how we can make the most noise

When artists fail to read the small print

Against Evidence-Based Policy

News in the POST

Antony Gormley and snobbery

T S Eliot prizewinner Jen Hadfield on RSA Arts & Ecology

Happy Thaler-Day