October 7, 2021

The dangers of the Nobel Prize Why was the inventor of lobotomies given science's highest honour?

Stuart Ritchie

23.08

Do you believe in luck? Sometimes magical thinking gets magical results

Matthew Sweet

12.06

Why was Jo Cox murdered? The true extent of Thomas Mair's evil may never be known

01.06

The science of bullshit Never believe an expert who thinks that 'confidence is everything'

Tom Chivers

27.05

You’re more biased than you think Daniel Kahneman won a Nobel Prize for studying errors — and still makes them

Stuart Ritchie

22.04

What makes us hate? A new book on prejudice dresses up common sense as scientific theory

Stuart Ritchie

20.04

The empty promise of pop psychology A new book by Jesse Singal explains why self-esteem fads never work

Sarah Ditum

05.02

The Government’s Covid comms failure The obsession with behavioural science is a classic case of over-promising and under-delivering

Stuart Ritchie

01.02

What if we were always a little bit drunk? Glasses at the ready — a new film suggests we need alcohol more than we might think

09.11

Will ‘Coronnials’ be scarred for life? Lockdown is redefining the youngest generation's relationship with the world

Eliza Filby

20.07

Would you rather be someone else? Modern literature dwells on the constant regret that is a downside of unlimited choice

Dan Hitchens

27.05

Our dangerous addiction to prediction When it comes to forecasting, what we need more than anything is humility

Stuart Ritchie