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RSA Videos and Animations- The Truth About Algorithms | Cathy O'Neil October 17, 2018We often think that algorithms are objective and fair, but they’re built to serve the people who create them – how can we make sure that the process of building algorithms is ethical? […]The RSA
- Sam Conniff Allende on How to Rewrite the Rules July 30, 2018Founder and former CEO of award-winning marketing agency Livity, Sam Conniff Allende re-purposes the innovative strategies of Golden Age pirates for 21st century would-be disruptors. […]The RSA
- Jonah Sachs on How to Take a Risk and Succeed July 23, 2018Creativity guru and founder of Free Range Studios, Jonah Sachs argues that ‘safe thinking’ ultimately causes failure, and shows how we can unleash our boldness and creativity to tackle systemic challenges. […]The RSA
- Sleep or Die | Matthew Walker July 20, 2018Introducing RSA Minimates – little sister of the RSA Animates you know and love! In our first ever RSA Minimate bestselling author and sleep scientist Matthew Walker argues that we are sleepwalking into the greatest public health crisis of our time. […]The RSA
- Kate Pickett & Richard Wilkinson on How Social Status Affects our Self-Worth July 2, 2018Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett follow up their seminal work The Spirit Level with new insights into how inequality impacts us as individuals. […]The RSA
- The Criminal Justice System: Close to Collapse? June 25, 2018The Secret Barrister, one of the UK’s leading law bloggers, shares insights from the frontline of our criminal justice system, and warns that it’s now close to breaking point. […]The RSA
- Jamie Bartlett on How the Internet is Killing Democracy June 18, 2018Should you really be shocked by the Facebook revelations? Author and Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, Jamie Bartlett argues that our fragile political system is being threatened by the digital revolution. […]The RSA
- Leonard Mlodinow on The Power of Elastic Thinking June 14, 2018Academic, bestselling author and Star Trek scriptwriter Leonard Mlodinow gives us the tools to harness the power of elastic thinking in an endlessly dynamic world. […]The RSA
- Dambisa Moyo on The Trouble with Democracy May 21, 2018Global economist Dambisa Moyo argues that democratic capitalism needs to reform and reboot, in order to meet the threats of income inequality and a stagnant economy. […]The RSA
- Caroline Lucas on Taking Back Control of our Climate April 23, 2018Daniel Coyle, New York Times bestselling author of The Talent Code, reveals the team-building skills behind some of the most effective organisations in the world. […]The RSA
- The Truth About Algorithms | Cathy O'Neil October 17, 2018
- TED Talks
- Moving forward: Notes from Session 6 of TEDWomen 2018 November 30, 2018After three days of astonishing speakers and bold ideas, you may be asking yourself: Where do we go now? The answer: forward. The final session of TEDWomen 2018, hosted by TEDWomen curator Pat Mitchell, featured a dynamic lineup of forward thinkers: Ariana Curtis, Galit Ariel, Majd Mashharawi, Soraya Chemaly, Katharine Hayhoe, Cecile Richards, Kakenya Ntaiya […]Brian Greene
- Be aggressive about your ambition: Stacey Abrams speaks at TEDWomen 2018 November 30, 2018Stacey Abrams’s 2018 campaign for governor of Georgia was watched across the world. The first black woman to be nominated by a major party for governor, she lost after a hard-fought race. Now she’s the surprise speaker onstage at TEDWomen 2018, where, in an electrifying talk, she shares the lessons she learned from her campaign, […] […]Brian Greene
- Showing off: Notes from Session 5 of TEDWomen 2018 November 30, 2018The term “showing off” gets a bad rap. But for Session 5 of TEDWomen 2018, a lineup of speakers and performers reclaimed the phrase — showing off their talents, skills and whole extraordinary selves. Hosted by TED’s head of conferences, Kelly Stoetzel, and head of curation, Helen Walters, the talks ranged from architecture and the environment to education an […]Brian Greene
- Watch Tarana Burke’s TED Talk: Me Too is a movement, not a moment November 30, 2018An inspiring, honest talk: In 2006, Tarana Burke was consumed by a desire to do something about the sexual violence she saw in her community. She took out a piece of paper, wrote “Me Too” across the top and laid out an action plan for a movement centered on the power of empathy between survivors. […] […]TED Staff
- Gathering together: Notes from Session 4 of TEDWomen 2018 November 30, 2018In a searching session of talks hosted by curator and photographer Deborah Willis and her son, artist Hank Willis Thomas (who spoke together at TEDWomen 2017), 12 speakers explored conflict, love, the environment and activism, and more. The session featured duet talks from Paula Stone Williams and Jonathan Williams, Neha Madhira and Haley Stack, Aja Monet an […]Brian Greene
- Breaking out: Notes from Session 3 of TEDWomen 2018 November 30, 2018In session 3 of TEDWomen 2018, hosted by social justice documentarian Jess Search, a lineup of speakers and performers — Eldra Jackson, Shad Begum, Emily Quinn, Shohini Ghose, Climbing PoeTree, Maeve Higgins and Lindy Lou Isonhood — explored toxic masculinity, quantum computing, immigration, the death penalty and much more. An empathetic cure for toxic mascu […]Brian Greene
- Getting started: Notes from Session 2 of TEDWomen 2018 November 29, 2018In an early morning session hosted by podcaster and TED2017 speaker Manoush Zomorodi, six speakers — Lucy Cooke, Ayanna Howard, Nivruti Rai, Monique W. Morris, Karissa Sanbonmatsu and Amanda Williams — brought us insights from the worlds of AI, robotics, epigenetics, education, and the wonderfully slow world of the sloth. Sustainability lessons from the slot […]Brian Greene
- Showing up: Notes from Session 1 of TEDWomen 2018 November 29, 2018Women the world over are no longer accepting the status quo. They’re showing up and pushing boundaries. Whatever their focus and talent — business, technology, art, science, politics — pioneers and their allies are joining forces in an explosion of discovery and ingenuity to drive real, meaningful change. At TEDWomen 2018 — three days of […] […]Brian Greene
- Propelled by possibility: Tarana Burke speaks at TEDWomen 2018 November 29, 2018Watch Tarana Burke’s TED Talk » In 2006, Tarana Burke was consumed by a desire to do something about the rampant sexual violence she saw in her community. She took out a piece of paper, wrote “Me Too” across the top and laid out an action plan for a movement centered on the power of empathy […] […]Oliver Friedman
- The art of possibility: The talks of TED@Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany November 28, 2018The possibilities life affords us are endless. We can find them everywhere, at the micro and macro levels and across all fields. Do you see them? Look closer: they are there every time we use our curiosity and imagination to explore and try new things. For a second year, TED and Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, […] […]Brian Greene
- Moving forward: Notes from Session 6 of TEDWomen 2018 November 30, 2018
- British Psycological Society
- Self-explanation is a powerful learning technique, according to meta-analysis of 64 studies involving 6000 participants December 7, 2018By Christian Jarrett. Self-explanation encourages students to fuse new information with old. […]BPS Research Digest
- Researchers say they’ve identified two brain networks – one responsible for volition, the other for agency – that together underlie our sense of free will December 6, 2018By Emma Young. Although intriguing, these results are unlikely to settle the many scholarly debates about free will. […]BPS Research Digest
- Psychology’s favourite tool for measuring implicit bias is still mired in controversy December 5, 2018By Jesse Singal. A new review aims to move on from past controversies but experts can't even agree on what they're arguing about. […]BPS Research Digest
- A new review looks into the optimum exercise intensity, type and duration for boosting mood December 4, 2018By Christian Jarrett. Perhaps the most important lesson from this review is that we need more research into how different types and intensities of exercise affect our mood. […]BPS Research Digest
- Explaining the power of curiosity – to your brain, hunger for knowledge is much the same as hunger for food December 3, 2018By Christian Jarrett. Researchers provoked curiosity in their volunteers using magic and obscure trivia questions. […]BPS Research Digest
- It’s getting increasingly difficult for psychology’s replication-crisis sceptics to explain away failed replications November 30, 2018By Jesse Singal. The Many Labs 2 project managed to successfully replicate only half of 28 previously published significant effects. […]BPS Research Digest
- New findings suggest post-traumatic growth may often be illusory November 29, 2018By Christian Jarrett. The researchers said basing interventions on the idea of post-traumatic growth is worrisome. […]BPS Research Digest
- New research finds there is no “right thing” to say when you want to be supportive November 28, 2018By Christian Jarrett. Your mere presence and sympathy are likely to be enough, the researchers said. […]BPS Research Digest
- Do social psychologists have an ideological aversion to evolutionary psychology? November 27, 2018By Christian Jarrett. Part of the problem may be the lack of evolutionary science in many psychology degree courses. […]BPS Research Digest
- For these people with depression, all treatment approaches had failed, but then they adopted a pet … November 26, 2018By Christian Jarrett. The companionship and responsibilities involved in looking after a pet may help combat depression. […]BPS Research Digest
- Self-explanation is a powerful learning technique, according to meta-analysis of 64 studies involving 6000 participants December 7, 2018
- Guardian Education
- Humiliation, homoeroticism and animal cruelty: inside the frathouse December 10, 2018Photographer Andrew Moisey uncovered ritual hazing, extreme drunkenness and toxic masculinity on one college campus – from men destined to be America’s future leadersLast year in the US, four freshman students died as a direct result of hazing rituals during college fraternity initiation ceremonies. All the deaths occurred during or just after drinking bouts […]Sean O'Hagan
- Cambridge gives role to academic accused of racist stereotyping December 7, 2018University professors among hundreds who object to award of research job to Noah CarlUniversity of Cambridge professors and academics from around the world have criticised the appointment of a social scientist whose work they say has stoked “racist, xenophobic, fascist and anti-immigration rhetoric”.A letter protesting about the appointment of Noah Carl to a […]Richard Adams Education editor
- Oxbridge needs to guarantee places for the best state school pupils | Owen Jones December 7, 2018Figures show eight top schools feed Oxford and Cambridge. I know how the system works against those from state schoolsOxbridge does not represent Britain’s best or the brightest: let’s just get that out of the way. Many of the country’s most intelligent, thoughtful and perceptive people do not attend either Oxford or Cambridge. Both institutions are instead, […]Owen Jones
- Amy Winehouse on tour as a hologram: Chips with Everything podcast December 7, 2018Jordan Erica Webber explores the sometimes controversial world of holograms, from lessons taught by absent academics, to celebrities returning to the stage, even after their deathIn November 2018 Imperial College Business School announced that its students will be the first in the world to have live lectures delivered to them via hologram.Just a month before […]Presented by Jordan Erica Webber and produced by Danielle Stephens
- Revision tips: how to avoid a meltdown in the exam hall December 7, 2018Experts offer their advice on exam preparation – from different studying methods to dealing with mid-paper panicExams are looming. For first-year students in particular, they can feel especially foreboding. Here we’ve brought together experts including psychologists, lecturers and wellbeing counsellors to give their top advice on how to sail through your exa […]Lucy Tobin
- When my patient died giving birth, the reality of US maternal mortality and race hit me December 7, 2018Pregnancy-related deaths among black women are triple those of our white counterparts I don’t allow myself to remember much about my patient who died. I don’t remember her name. I don’t remember the date. I don’t even remember how old I was at the time. But as a result of this memory, I am forever changed.In almost a decade of maternity nursing, I’d never ha […]Tiffany M Montgomery
- A mercenary academic produced dodgy data to sabotage my case | Anonymous academic December 7, 2018When I gave evidence showing that an environmental toxin had caused deaths, the authorities hired a rogue scientistMost of my job as an academic researcher is spent at my desk or in meetings, so it was with some surprise that I ended up working on a legal case. I felt like a scientist in a TV thriller. I had been contacted by someone who asked me to analyse […]Anonymous academic
- The teachers asking pupils to make the case for Christmas have a lesson for us all | Gaby Hinsliff December 7, 2018Some basic truths are under threat, and we are out of practice at defending themChristmas is cancelled. There can’t be many headteachers who haven’t occasionally longed to type those three words and press “send”. ’Tis the season of precious teaching time disappearing down the plughole of nativity play rehearsals, carol services, and Christmas craft days that […]Gaby Hinsliff
- Eton and Westminster among eight schools dominating Oxbridge December 7, 2018Research shows pupils from state sector less likely to apply than privately educated peersEight top schools in the UK get as many pupils into the universities of Oxford and Cambridge as three-quarters of all schools and colleges together, according to new research.Over a three-year period the eight leading schools – which are mainly in the independent sector […]Sally Weale Education correspondent
- Down with 'studentification': how cities fought for their right not to party December 6, 2018From Bristol to Nottingham, university towns across the country are facing up to the negative impacts of large student populationsIt’s 1.30am on a Sunday in Redland, Bristol, and a student party is in full swing. A front door opens and a young woman comes out dressed as a frog. But this isn’t your average slice of uni mayhem: immediately, the student hired t […]Peter Beech
- Humiliation, homoeroticism and animal cruelty: inside the frathouse December 10, 2018
