Michael Norton studied psychology and was a fellow at the MIT Media Lab before becoming professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. Known for…
View More Behavioural scientist Michael Norton: ‘When a tennis player ties their shoes in a particular way, they feel they can play at Wimbledon’Tag: Science and nature books
‘The UK’s importing of food is a travesty’: farmer’s wife Helen Rebanks tells her own story
“I live with my husband, James, and we have four children – Molly, Bea, Isaac and Tom. There are also six sheep dogs, two ponies,…
View More ‘The UK’s importing of food is a travesty’: farmer’s wife Helen Rebanks tells her own storyWhy we need to respect Earth’s last great wilderness – the ocean
The real payoff from the Apollo missions had nothing to do with the moon. The prize was travelling far enough out into space to look…
View More Why we need to respect Earth’s last great wilderness – the oceanThe big idea: should doctors be able to prescribe psychedelics?
So-called magic mushrooms (those that contain the molecule psilocybin) have been used by people around the world medicinally and ceremonially for a very long time.…
View More The big idea: should doctors be able to prescribe psychedelics?A Brief History of Time is ‘wrong’, Stephen Hawking told collaborator
In 2002 Thomas Hertog received an email summoning him to the office of his mentor Stephen Hawking. The young researcher rushed to Hawking’s room at…
View More A Brief History of Time is ‘wrong’, Stephen Hawking told collaboratorThe big idea: are we living in a simulation?
Elon Musk thinks you don’t exist. But it’s nothing personal: he thinks he doesn’t exist either. At least, not in the normal sense of existing.…
View More The big idea: are we living in a simulation?Birdwatcher Mya-Rose Craig: ‘The nature sector is decades behind in terms of diversity’
Mya-Rose Craig is a 20-year-old birdwatcher and activist who grew up in a village near Bristol. She has been a birder since birth (well, her…
View More Birdwatcher Mya-Rose Craig: ‘The nature sector is decades behind in terms of diversity’‘I’m certainly open to criticism’: David Wengrow and the trouble with rewriting human history
Last year a book called The Dawn of Everything announced that most of what we think we know about human history is wrong. Its co-authors,…
View More ‘I’m certainly open to criticism’: David Wengrow and the trouble with rewriting human historyRegenesis by George Monbiot review – hungry for real change
We are farming our planet to death. Half of the world’s habitable land has already been colonised to produce our food. Nature, the many millions…
View More Regenesis by George Monbiot review – hungry for real changeJulia Shaw: ‘I had so many questions about bisexuality’
Julia Shaw is a psychologist at University College London and part of Queer Politics at Princeton University, a thinktank engaged in the research of LGBTQ+…
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