Cognitive Engineering

Fraser, Nick and Peter discuss health data and measuring medical outcomes with special guest Neil Bacon.

Things mentioned in this podcast:

• Neil Bacon’s web page
• Doctor’s Net UK
• iWantGreatCare
• Asthma facts and statistics
• Sir Muir Gray
• AI 'outperforms' doctors diagnosing breast cancer

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Here lies Matt Goss: look on his works, ye mighty, and despair.

Things mentioned in this podcast:

• Tim Ferris - reasons to not become famous
• ‘One in four millennials would quit their job to become famous’
• What percentage of people are famous?
• Bloomberg’s Top 500 Billionaires
• John Maltby, ‘An Interest in Fame’
• Does fame make you happy?

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Does experience make us wiser or simply more boring? Three middle aged men will tackle the question with a total lack of bias.

Things mentioned in this podcast:

• ‘Young people tend to be more liberal than older people.’
• The politics of ageing
• The origin of ‘that’ quote
• Working-class Tories

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Small doses, or all or nothing - what is the best way to live life?

Things mentioned in this podcast:

• ‘Moderation is the Key to Life’
• Bill Hicks, ‘Smoking’
• Personality traits of binge drinkers
• Personality types and happiness
• Millennials avoiding getting drunk

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Was it useful to label Extinction Rebellion as a terrorist organisation? How is terrorism different from extremism?

Things mentioned in this podcast:

• Extinction Rebellion are included in a list of extremist groups
• Global Terrorism Database
• Proscribed terrorist groups list
• Terrorism Act 2006
• UK Counter-Extremism Strategy

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We ask whether mental toughness is all in the mind.

Things mentioned in this podcast:

• Harry and Meghan’s statement
• Susie Ballentyne’s research page at the University of Sussex

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Edged tools have been used by hominids for millions of years, but the elastoplast was only invented just over 100 years ago. Did we get our priorities right?

Things mentioned in this podcast:

• Sudesh Amman attack
• Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents and the discontinuation of the dataset
• CPSC’s injury statistics

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Emotion, recency and virtue signalling - does it matter what drives charitable behaviour?

Things mentioned in this podcast:

• Amelia Roberts’ charity appeal
• Givewell’s top charities
• Forbes’ list of charities with the highest overheads
• Givewell’s critique of ‘mega-charities’
• Small and Loewenstein, Helping a Victim or Helping the Victim: Altruism and Identifiability
• The Guardian on emotive charity adverts

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A dish best served cold, or not at all? We discuss revenge as a strategy.

Things mentioned in this podcast:

• The ProRevenge subreddit
• William Miller, In Defense of Revenge
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Retributive Justice
• Richard Nisbett, Culture of Honor
• Robert Axelrod - Evolution of Cooperation

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Does our always on, instantly connected world mean that we’ve lost the job of serendipity? Can we engineer our environment to maximise the chance of good things happening to us?

Things mentioned in this podcast:

• Red Dwarf - ‘Future Echoes’
• Doing the same thing twice is more fun than you think
• The Secretary Problem
• Games of Life by Karl Sigmund

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