Lifestyle topics
There was an article in The Guardian Weekly in early January pointing out that our lives are more scrambled and complicated than they have ever been. The writer, John Harris, called modernity “a mess: multiple user accounts, endless password filling in, smartphone contracts, computer and internet problems that so few of us really understand” and …
Researchers studied e-waste generation over five years in 12 Asian countries including China, which saw the amount of e-waste it produced more than double. From 2010 to 2015, the volume of electronic waste generated in East and South-East Asia rose 63 per cent, according to a report from the United Nations University. The rise is …
We went to a concert the other night. Tchaikovsky and Beethoven were featured. Nowadays, if you have them in the program you also need a modern composer as well. In this case the piece was a Trombone Concerto (I won’t mention the name of the very experienced composer for reasons of tact. I’m sure the …
The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which low-ability individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability as much higher than it really is. The phenomenon was first observed in a series of experiments by David Dunning and Justin Kruger of the department of psychology at Cornell University in 1999. They attributed this …
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On this blog we have discussed the power of the college and university administrators and the corresponding loss of power of the academics and university workers. In healthcare there has been a similar revolution, introduced under the guise of unquestioned ‘best practice’. It is seldom discussed or debated. The advent of neoliberalism (or Thatcherism) in …
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