by Tom | Aug 29, 2011 | Reading
What insightful and thought-provoking websites have you across throughout the years? On Reddit. Too much to go through, so click on a couple that take your fancy. I liked Brain Pickings and applaud heavy petal, as name for a gardening site.
by Tom | Aug 29, 2011 | Reading, Science
The Psychologist – The shock of the old has a useful revisit of Milgram’s obedience to authority experiments (especially the electric shock one). Things I hadn’t realised: the “subjects” (non-experimenters / non-actors) really agonised...
by Tom | Aug 29, 2011 | Reading
BBC News – The story of how we got our alphabets. Nice audio summary if a little too rapid for me. I didn’t know about the hieratic-hebrew lineage or the bone cracking Chinese.
by Tom | Aug 27, 2011 | Reading
Ben Goldacre summarises some very compelling research on antioxidant vitamin pills. They make people who take them more likely to do harmful things to themselves. Don’t take them.
by Tom | Aug 25, 2011 | Reading
Sure of your self?. Hume was a bloody good thinker, and still relevant today. The self is a bundle of perceptions and similarities between these perceptions lead us to call them a self.
by Tom | Aug 25, 2011 | Business, Hong Kong / China, Reading
Magnetic pots create urban wall garden. Great idea. Could work well in HK too.
