by Argumentful | May 14, 2020 | Critical thinking posts, Uncategorized |
The Guardian published over the last few weeks several articles about the report produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) which highlights the higher mortality of Black, Asian or minority ethnic (BAME) people compared to whites. Firstly, let’s look at the...
by Argumentful | Mar 11, 2020 | Books |
If we were to post a picture of a chubby golden Labrador on ANY social network, it would get 100+ likes in a few hours. In contrast, the following pinned tweet has received only 14 likes (including ours) since 2018. A reshare of a same research posted by...
by Argumentful | Mar 6, 2020 | News |
Posting two interesting pieces of news that are NOT about the coronavirus. A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Cell studied how Caloric Restriction, meaning eating 30% fewer calories, slowed down aging-related changes in cell type composition, gene...
by Argumentful | Feb 27, 2020 | News |
Another course from the module taught by Prof. Steven Pinker at Harvard was made available free of charge on Panopto. The topic is Rational Choice Theory and Game Theory and includes among others the Utility Theory, the Prisoners’ Dilemma and concepts of game...
by Argumentful | Feb 20, 2020 | News |
We’re starting a new section on this blog to include interesting news we’ve stumbled upon over the last week. It will all be related to science or critical thinking and we’ll try to keep cat and puppy videos to a minimum. The state of technology in...
by Argumentful | Feb 18, 2020 | News |
On the premise that, if a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well, if we’re anyway about to open a can worms, we’ll go for the biggest one on the shelf. What we wanted to do is some primary research around reader comments on online newspapers so we went for an...
