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How can we give up bad habits for good?

Blog

21 Nov 2017

Ian Burbidge

With the post-Christmas resolutions looming, when we try to address the worst of our seasonal over-indulgences, the question remains: how can we give up bad habits for good?
Why fake news doesn't swing elections

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13 Dec 2016

Tony Greenham

Fake news doesn’t swing elections, but neither does ‘truth’. We have always filtered new information to fit our existing prejudices. The real danger to our democracy is not an absence of truth, but an absence of trust.
Tell me a story? Or give me the figures?

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05 Sep 2016

Nathalie Spencer

What is the best way to influence stakeholders and generate change? Different approaches to generating change have different strengths, when should each be used to the best effect?
Health as a Social Movement - but what does that mean?

Blog

26 Jul 2016

Nathalie Spencer

How can we create a social movement in health? In this 5 minute video, the RSA asked health and community leaders to help explain.
Let’s Talk About Death

Video

23 Jun 2014

With Will Self, Joanna Cook and Stephen Cave
Daniel Kahneman on religion, wellbeing, and thinking fast and slow

Blog

21 Mar 2014

Nathalie Spencer

What a treat to see Daniel Kahneman here in London on Tuesday night at the beautiful Methodist Central Hall, just next door to Westminster Abbey and Big Ben.
The only 'normal' people are the ones you don't know very well

Blog

06 Mar 2014

Jonathan Rowson

I haven't taken many sick days in my working life, but whenever I have I return to my desk to find a 'sickness absence form' asking for some basic administrative information including the line:
Can you have too much creativity?

Blog

09 Jan 2014

Jonathan Rowson

Adam Lent's rallying cry for creativity met with strong tacit approval from the echo-chamber, and rightly so. What's not to like? Creativity is a feel-good concept, tapping into to the value of human freedom, with pleasant undertones of productivity, individuality, and style.
On Being Touched and Moved

Video

26 Nov 2013

Guy Claxton is Co-Director of the Centre for Real-World Learning, and Professor of the Learning Sciences, University of Winchester.
Smartphones make us dumb

Blog

26 Sep 2013

Jonathan Schifferes

Did you see the one about Apple Maps mistakenly directing people to drive across the runway at an Alaskan Airport? The coverage provides an indication of how much we’ve outsourced our intelligence to our smartphones, and how we are likely to erode our own intelligence as a result.