Cognitive Engineering

It gets everywhere - but what is it and where does it come from?

Things mentioned in this podcast:

• Where does all this dust come from?
• Sand crisis
• Space dust

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Why is that some technologies are perennially about to transform our lives, but never really take off. Do they have something in common?

Things mentioned in this podcast:

• When corporate innovation goes bad
• The Death of the E-Reader

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Should we be suspicious of successful people? Is high performance related to dishonesty?

Things mentioned in this podcast:

• My Mother Thinks Bill Gates is Trying to Kill Us All
• ‘Corrupt Corporate Executive’ on TV Tropes
• ‘Snakes in Suits’
• One in Five CEOs are Psychopaths, New Study Finds
• Hanson on foragers v farmers

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Is there a wisdom in crowds, or are we all heading over the cliff like lemmings?

Things mentioned in this podcast:

• The Great Battle of Fire and Light, Wait But Why
• ‘Sourdough’, xkcd
• Mass panics of 2016
• Measuring the collective unconscious

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Does the way different nations have responded to the Covid-19 pandemic tell us anything about the international balance of power?

Things mentioned in this podcast:

• Correlates of War dataset
• Thomas Cole, the Course of Empire
• Harari on the cycle of empire

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Heated argument or reasoned discussion? Is there an optimal way to frame debate?

Things mentioned in this podcast:

• Agreeableness and outcomes
• Marital conflict behaviours
• Relational models theory
• Is it bad to bottle up anger?
• The benefits of arguing

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Explaining the situation or avoiding your responsibilities - are excuses valid and is there an art to them?

Things mentioned in this podcast:

• ‘Sorry about the speeding, I was having sex’
• Dr Paulina Sliwa on the philosophy of excuses

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How would we know if the world was ending?

Things mentioned in this podcast:

• Ministerial reassurance over food supplies?
• A Journey to the End of Time
• Fifteen Signs before Doomsday
• Timelapse of the future

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Are there any positives to emerge from the global pandemic? How can we make the most of a bad situation?

Things mentioned in this podcast:

• The upside of Tube strikes

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Penicillin, the printing press, and cheese and onion crisps - What makes an invention well known rather than merely successful?

Things mentioned in this podcast:

• ‘TRIZ’
• BBC poll on the ‘best invention’
• Top inventions of the last 25 years
• ‘The most important inventor you’ve never heard of’

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