Tag: BBC Future

• Teach not thy lip such scorn

  Have you ever seen those paintings where something actually extends beyond the frame -escapes from the two-dimensional prison of the wall where it hangs? It can make even the most banal of subjects command attention -as if it were reaching out to plead for recognition, or at least an awareness of its existence in an…

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  October 10, 2018

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  BBC Future, Bias, education, educational system, Educationism, Erica Southgate, Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, London School of Economics, Poverty, Toon Kuppens, University of Newcastle Australia

• In choice, we are so oft beguiled

  It’s interesting just how important categories are in our lives, isn’t it? I mean, let’s face it, often they’re just adjectives –subordinate to their nouns. Add-ons. And yet, they can frame context, colour perception, and even determine value. Some, like, say, texture or odour may be interesting but trivial; some –size, or cost, for example-…

  gozzter

  July 25, 2018

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  Age, automaticity, BBC Future, categories, choice, Gender, gender bias, group membership, hockey, Kahlil Gibran, medicine, memory confusion protocol, opinions, race, social categorisation, Tom Stafford

• Fairness Which Strikes the Eye

  Sometimes it seems we cannot help ourselves –the pull of the tide is just too strong to resist. And sometimes an argument, when considered too quickly, too uncritically, captures us with its ostensibly intuitive wisdom. We have no need to question it. No need to probe the basis of its logic. The rhetoricians of old…

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  November 22, 2017

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  argument, Aristotle, BBC Future, Capitalism, Christina Starmans, equality, ethos, fairness, Harry G Frankfurt, income disparity, inequality, King Lear, logic, logos, Mark Sheskin, Nature Human Behaviour, Occupy Movement, On Inequality, pathos, persuasion, Princeton University, rhetoric, Shakespeare, wealth, wealth inequality, Wisdom, Yale University

• The Unheard Problem with Noise

  Life in the city can be noisy. That’s not where I live, so I find my occasionally unavoidable forays into its bowels almost unbearable. “How can you live like this?” I asked a friend as we sat on the patio of a coffee shop on a downtown street as an ambulance screamed by. “What do…

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  July 17, 2017

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  alert fatigue, ambient noise, amygdala, Annett Schirmer, audio, BBC Future, brain, Chinese University of Hong Kong, entrainment, fear, HIV testing, Jake Harper, Luc Arnal, Malawi, music, neural circuits, Noise, Oliver Wendell Holmes, rhythm, screams, signal fatigue, sounds, speech, University of Geneva, white noise