“..In climate policy, the US lags behind other countries. Quotes a current scientific review: “109 countries have enacted some form of policy regarding renewable power, and 118 countries have set targets for renewable energy. In contrast, the United States has no adopted any consistent and stable set of policies at the national level to foster the use of renewable energy” or adopted other means that are being pursued by countries that do have national policies. Some things are being done in the US, but sporadically, and with no organized national commitment. That’s no slight problem for us, and for the world, in the light of the great predominance of American power – declining to be sure as power is diversified internationally, but still unchallenged…”
(Noam Chomsky via AlterNet: March ’13 – click here for piece in full)
Archive for March 10, 2013
“The Human Zoo is a place to learn about the one subject that never fails to fascinate – ourselves. Are people led by the head or by the heart? How rational are we? How do we perceive the world and what lies behind the quirks of human behaviour?
Michael Blastland presents a curious blend of intriguing experiments to discover our biases and judgements, conversations, explorations and examples taken from what’s in the news to what we do in the kitchen – all driven by a large slice of curiosity.
Nick Chater, Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick University, is on hand as guide and experimenter in chief.”
BBC Radio 4: click here to enter ZOO…
- Contributor – Professor Nick Chater (www.wbs.ac.uk)
- Contributor – Dr Nick Yeung (www.neuroscience.ox.ac.uk)
- Contributor – Andrew Pontzen: Cosmological Pianist (www.cosmocrunch.co.uk)
- Contributor – Professor Kathleen Vohs (www.carlsonschool.umn.edu)
- Baumeister & Tice: Ego Depletion Manipulations (www.psy.fsu.edu)
- PNAS: External Influences on Judges’ Decisions (www.pnas.org)
- YouTube – Change Blindness (www.youtube.com)
- Contributor – Professor Steven Connor (www.stevenconnor.com)
- Warwick Business School – Change Blindness Experiment(www.weblab.wbs.ac.uk)
- Big Think – Ego Depletion, Motivation & Attention (bigthink.com)
- Huffington Post – Articles by Professor Katherine Vohs (www.huffingtonpost.com)
- Science Now – Multitasking Splits the Brain (news.sciencemag.org)
- NPR – Think You’re Multitasking? Think Again. (www.npr.org)
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