Did You Know⁉️ Rhodes University's Human Kinetics and Ergonomics (HKE) Department is the ONLY tertiary education department in South Africa offering a full-time degree in human factors and ergonomics. This unique department draws on a vast range of disciplines – from anatomy and

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Brad Wilcox Jean Twenge (author of 10 RULES, GENERATIONS) The Atlantic "The research is clear: in the first three years of life, children require consistent, predictable, and emotionally attuned care, ideally from a parent—most often the mother. This is not an ideology. It is developmental science." Erica Komisar, LCSW

When people (esp. degrowers) think that median Western incomes are somehow acceptable and that, if inequality were less, we could keep the current global GDP and all live at incomes around the Western median they simply do not know the facts. US median income person is at the

The quality of management was, for years, a black box to economists. Everyone believed it had to matter. Nobody had the data to study it seriously until Bloom and Van Reenen (2007). 1/

"The Geometry of Equilibrium: James Clerk Maxwell and 21st-Century Structural Mechanics"

Obituary: Rainer Weiss (1932-2025) Nobel laureate who pioneered the technique that detected gravitational waves go.nature.com/4m46Gu4

Cool new paper with more evidence for what has finally become a general finding in the comparative authoritarianism subfield: regimes with ruling parties that have revolutionary origins are way more resilient than those without (Huntington said this 60 yrs ago, but that's fine).

Being vaccinated against hepatitis B may reduce chronic inflammation levels in the body, which could help ward off diabetes newscientist.com/article/249469…

Colours are represented and processed in the same way in the brains of different people go.nature.com/4n3DjJB

THE HARD PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUSNESS: MARY’S ROOM THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: Do we have phenomenal qualia? Is experience just representative knowledge? And what does it mean for the hard problem? All discussed with the legendary Frank Jackson himself Conversations | Philosopher Frank

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What are the laws of physics - world renowned philosopher Barry Loewer-T... youtu.be/-pnVjCAKnHM?si… via YouTube

What are the laws of physics - with Jacob Barandes of Harvard University youtu.be/b0kucwLjy8U?si… via YouTube

What are Reality and Causation? Professor Ned Hall, Harvard University-T... youtu.be/ddNkpV8xncA?si… via YouTube

THE HARD PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUSNESS: I discuss experience, causal modeling & explanation in cognitive & neuroscience, whether experience can be married with physicalism & whether experience can actually be explained by the scientific method with HARVARD'S STEVEN PINKER - TIME

Unconscious routines are superb at the familiar—yet they trade speed for a loss of flexibility. Consciousness steps in when the situation changes. A short read on why awareness is for novelty.

Why Scientists Think We Might Live Inside a Black Hole youtu.be/jVmP6XCD1N4?si… via YouTube