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Press release
12 Jan 2013
Given that the world faces so many major and intractable problems, why do politicians insist on trying to address them in a piecemeal fashion, rather than addressing underlying root causes?
Blog
11 Jan 2013
Jonathan Rowson
While minding my own business yesterday I received an unexpected call asking me to appear on The Today Programme to discuss the psychological underpinnings of why we waste so much food. They chose me with my Social Brain hat on, because they wanted to explore wider issues relating to people acting against their own self-interest and the nature of irrationality.
10 Jan 2013
Matthew Taylor
Having been such a misery about the world yesterday I can today be a ray of sunshine about the RSA.
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With Christine Gilbert, Andreas Schleicher, Dr Vanessa Ogden, David Carter, Professor Chris Husbands, Professor Becky Francis, Matthew Taylor
I think it was Enoch Powell who said that a politician who complains about the media is like a fish complaining about the sea. The same is just as true for think tanks, so this isn't a complaint just a quick counterpoint to some of the gratifyingly widespread coverage of the Academies Commission report which was published today.
This is a guest post from the Library Team.
Nathalie Spencer
We talk a lot about attention at the RSA. It is one of Social Brain Centre’s core thematic strands, and Jonathan blogged about the potential for it to be fractured by our technological addictions earlier this week. So I was very interested to see that the article The Essence of Optimism in the Jan/Feb issue of Scientific American Mind was largely on attention, too.
Tony Juniper is a campaigner, writer, sustainability adviser and environmentalist.
Joe Hallgarten
Commissions can be tricky beasts. Often, in the drive to achieve consensus among all parties, they can drift towards the lowest-risk common denominator. Last minute changes and compromises can skew narratives. And, as with all policy reports, subtle sets of recommendations can be misinterpreted by the media and others. Low-lying ideas can suddenly become top-line recommendations.
Join Richard Hudson and Mike Dempsey for this edition from the RDInsights series.
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