On Monday June 23rd at 6pm I'll be chairing 'Let's Talk about Death' featuring Writer Will Self, Philosopher Stephen Cave and Anthropologist Joanna Cook. This event is the fourth in our series of six on reconceiving spirituali ...
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Ten years ago we’d never heard of names like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp. And yet today, for many, they are modern pillars of daily communication.
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Hang on, didn't we used to have souls?
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We're delighted to announce that the Social Brain and Education teams' newest report was launched yesterday in Berlin. The paper, supported by Vodafone Foundation Germany, explores the application of behavioural insight in ...
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Ever heard of a stand-up economist? I hadn't either, until I was invited to see Yoram Bauman's gig here in London last Friday night. Dubbed "the world's first and only stand up economist", he began the night with delightful ...
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If there are two things I know, they're that a) time goes by too quickly and b) everyone loves a list. So with this in mind and with 2013 drawing to a close, we thought it would be a good time to reflect on the work that ...
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References to ‘green crap’ miss the point. The key political fault line on climate change is not green versus non green, but how you order the priorities of the energy ‘trilemma’. The case for climate change action needs ...
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At the risk of being a bit corny, I'm going to use today - the holiday of Thanksgiving in the US - to write about what I am thankful for.
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… and to non-economists, too.
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“Imagine a classroom where everyone started off an academic year with an “A” grade, and in order to keep the grade, a pupil had to show continuous improvement throughout the year. In this classroom, the teacher would have ...
