by Tom | May 12, 2011 | Reading
It’s the first new idea in funerals I’ve read about for ages: put your remains in a planter and leave behind a tree. Yes please. Although I still don’t have a good feeling for the relative eco-friendliness of cremation vs other forms of disposal....
by Tom | May 12, 2011 | Business, Reading
I hadn’t heard of Steven Sasson, Eric Fossum, Joseph Woodland or Bernard Silver. They’ve just been inducted into the US National Inventors Hall of fame for the invention of the digital camera, camera-on-a-chip and bar codes (sort of respectively). Nice to...
by Tom | May 5, 2011 | Reading, Science
Another new one to add to the list of books for psychologists. The argumentative theory argues (of course) that we developed reasoning to help us evaluate other people’s arguments and to try to convince them of ours. Not for searching after the truth, which...
by Tom | May 5, 2011 | Reading, Science
The books and journal articles all psychologists should read has a lot of interesting sounding reads. I particularly like it when people say: “I read the original and realised I’d been misquoting / mis-referencing it for years”.
by Tom | May 5, 2011 | Business, Reading
Cracking Dilbert This has happened to me more often than I care to think.
by Tom | May 5, 2011 | Reading
Brilliant Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
