New thinking required: the end of oil (what of cars, pedestrians and walking)?
Here’s a startling article by Seth Miller, predicting the end of oil for energy use, because of electric car technology. A combination of few moving parts, and extreme battery efficiency, is giving rise to a new generation of cars with expected lives of up to forty or fifty years and capable of running a million miles.… Read More
From Mosaic: How to fall to your death and live to tell the tale
How to fall to your death and live to tell the tale Slipping in the shower, tripping down the stairs, taking a tumble in the supermarket – falls kill over 420,000 people per year and hospitalise millions more. We can’t eliminate all falls, says Neil Steinberg. So we must to learn to fall better. Alcides Moreno… Read More
Building Resilient Organisations, One Brain at a Time (1)
Resilience is defined by the American Psychological Association as “the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or even significant sources of stress.” Both people and organisations can be resilient – and it is through people, and stress-tested processes that organisations can learn to be resilient in the face of adversity.… Read More
Robust replication of cognitive psychological effects (from the BPS)
Does the brain matter in business?
(Cross-blogged from Psychology Today) Feeling overloaded and stressed out at work? Neuroscience can offer some help… There is a huge interest in applying brain science in business at present. This is because neuroscience – the science of brain and behaviour – has emerged as one of the key and exciting sciences of the 21st century.… Read More
Pls RT: Postdoctoral Fellowship available immediately in behavioural neurophysiology
Description Postdoctoral Fellowship available immediately in behavioural neurophysiology Available immediately to work on the electrophysiology of the claustrum in the freely-moving rat. There is almost nothing known about the claustrum, and therefore great scientific scope for a motivated and dedicated candidate. Experience of electrophysiology is required for the successful candidate. Read: Dynamics of place, boundary… Read More
Brain for Business 2017
Brain for Business 2017 I am delighted to be speaking at the next Brain for Business event taking place in Dublin on 8th September, 2017 (see www.brainforbusiness.ie and @brainforbiz for more information). This will be a great event with super speakers focused on brain, behaviour and business, providing up-to-date lessons for you and your organisation. There are some places still available. What… Read More
Psychology of punishment and voting against your own interests
The psychology of punishment is key to why people vote against their own interests, says an Oxford n… – https://qz.com/916680/the-psychology-of-punishment-is-key-to-why-people-vote-against-their-own-interests-says-an-oxford-neuroscientist/
Learning about how to learn effectively: it’s all about the metacognition. (And it’s trainable…)
Every attempt to manage academia makes it worse
Originally posted on Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week:
I’ve been on Twitter since April 2011 — nearly six years. A few weeks ago, for the first time, something I tweeted broke the thousand-retweets barrier. And I am really unhappy about it. For two reasons. First, it’s not my own content — it’s a screen-shot…
