Science

How we make decisions, and how we can improve Critical decisions A fire fighter has just arrived at the scene of a house fire. The blaze is coming out of the top floor windows. How does he decide [...]

There are a lot of surprising facts around happiness, as I wrote previously. I’ve curated 4 of my favourite TED videos on happiness below.

Our brains are amazing things. They enable us to do many things which computers can’t do, for example ride a bike, see a single candle from 5 kms away, and predict what other people are thinking [...]

How can we have clear thinking on climate change? I’d like to take a helicopter view of the debate and get some perspective back about how we can move forward. How we can bring out the best in [...]

For those who attended my presentation today on the Nudge theory and Charity, I hope you found it valuable. Here are the links to some of the research used in the talk. Feel free to use them to [...]

I recently discovered the World Database of Happiness, and the Journal of Happiness Studies. Who knew there were so many people in white coats prodding people and asking them how happy they are [...]

Here are 3 of my favourite decision making videos – 2 from Ted, and a Stanford Uni one. Plus a 5 minute talk by myself at Ignite Sydney (like TED but only 5 minute presentations).

Here are the top posts from the last 4 weeks from my blog chicken or fish, all about making decisions.

Here are some of the ways taxi drivers have tried to overcharge me over the years. In china, a taxi driver had a meter that was rigged to make sudden jumps: 8.40, 8.50, 8.60, 9.20, 9.30, 10.50 In [...]

A couple of hours after the first caveman (or woman) invented fire, another caveman came along and poked his finger into the flames. What did his brain do? Before he had a chance to think about [...]