Cognitive Engineering
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Podcast by Aleph Insights
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Harmful Prayers
26/10/2019 Duración: 26minCan the call for divine intervention be a cause of harm? God only knows. Image: wlox.com Things mentioned in this podcast: - Willingness to pay for prayers https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/09/10/1908268116 - Hate crime advice https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/law-and-courts/discrimination/hate-crime/what-are-hate-incidents-and-hate-crime/ - Harrassment advice https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/law-and-courts/discrimination/what-are-the-different-types-of-discrimination/harassment/ For more Cognitive Engineering episodes find us on iTunes, Google Play or wherever you get your podcasts, or add this RSS feed to your preferred player: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:219479129/sounds.rss
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How American is American Football?
21/10/2019 Duración: 28minCowboys, 49ers and Patriots - can we determine anything about a culture based on the sports it plays? Image: KeithJJ via pixabay Things mentioned in this podcast: - Geert Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions https://data.world/adamhelsinger/geerthofstedeculturaldimension - Hofstede’s methodology https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=orpc - All-time Olympic medal table https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-with-the-most-olympic-medals.html For more Cognitive Engineering episodes find us on iTunes, Google Play or wherever you get your podcasts, or add this RSS feed to your preferred player: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:219479129/sounds.rss
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Energising the Base
11/10/2019 Duración: 33minDo fiery rhetoric and extreme policies help win elections? Image: Bundesarchiv via Wikipedia Things mentioned in this podcast: - Kaldor-Hicks criterion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaldor%E2%80%93Hicks_efficiency - ‘That which is seen, and that which is unseen’ (Bastiat) http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html - Public spending in the UK since 1900 https://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/past_spending - List of UK pressure groups https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pressure_groups_in_the_United_Kingdom For more Cognitive Engineering episodes find us on iTunes, Google Play or wherever you get your podcasts, or add this RSS feed to your preferred player: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:219479129/sounds.rss
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Learning from History
05/10/2019 Duración: 37min"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience." Was George Bernard Shaw right about the lessons of the past? Image: Public domain via Wikicommons Special Guest: Dr Kristian Gustafson https://www.brunel.ac.uk/people/kristian-gustafson For more Cognitive Engineering episodes find us on iTunes, Google Play or wherever you get your podcasts, or add this RSS feed to your preferred player: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:219479129/sounds.rss
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Fragility
20/09/2019 Duración: 30minThe internet provides a level of information resilience that mankind has never before possessed. But what happens if it breaks? Image: Tekniska museet via flickr Things mentioned in this podcast: - Getting deplatformed from Apple https://boingboing.net/2019/08/13/getting-deplatformed-from-appl.html - Cloudflare outage explanation https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage/ - List of significant internet outages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_outage - Verizon and BGP Optimizer outage https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-verizon-and-a-bgp-optimizer-knocked-large-parts-of-the-internet-offline-today/ For more Cognitive Engineering episodes find us on iTunes, Google Play or wherever you get your podcasts, or add this RSS feed to your preferred player: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:219479129/sounds.rss
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Ignoring Officials
13/09/2019 Duración: 27minDo not listen to this podcast. When is it permissible to ignore the voice of authority? Image: Danny Lawson via PA Images Things mentioned in this podcast: - Whaley Bridge residents who refuse to move https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-49210937 For more Cognitive Engineering episodes find us on iTunes, Google Play or wherever you get your podcasts, or add this RSS feed to your preferred player: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:219479129/sounds.rss
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Midges
06/09/2019 Duración: 23minThey're persistent, irritating and difficult to ignore. Yes, Frazer, Nick and Peter discuss midges. Image: CSIRO via Wikipedia Things mentioned in this podcast: - Midge facts https://www.lifesystems.co.uk/news/45-facts-about-the-highland-midge and https://www.highlandtitles.com/blog/midges/ - Parasite strategies https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsif.2013.1108 - How successful is terrorism? https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5fa3/f5d6d2ff50c200e759eba39509d179b0e33c.pdf For more Cognitive Engineering episodes find us on iTunes, Google Play or wherever you get your podcasts, or add this RSS feed to your preferred player: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:219479129/sounds.rss
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Vague Requirements
02/09/2019 Duración: 28minWould it be wrong to take a set of instructional schematics to the barber? We discuss when vague requirements work, and importantly when they don't. Image: J Pitts via Wikipedia Things mentioned in this podcast: - Goodhart’s Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law For more Cognitive Engineering episodes find us on iTunes, Google Play or wherever you get your podcasts, or add this RSS feed to your preferred player: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:219479129/sounds.rss
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Summer Re-release: Dated Films
16/08/2019 Duración: 24minWhile Aleph Insights is on a summer break from recording podcasts, here's an episode from our archive. Why do some films age better than others? Image: www.starwars.com/news/the-5-most-…s-visual-effects
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Summer Re-release: Optimised Fruit
10/08/2019 Duración: 23minWhile Aleph Insights is on a summer break from recording podcasts, here's an episode from our archive. What does tastiness tell us about fruit choice? Could we engineer the perfect fruit? Or are we just comparing apples and oranges? Image: Malte Sörensen via Flickr
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Summer Re-release: Personality Tests
31/07/2019 Duración: 31minWhile Aleph Insights is on a summer break from recording podcasts, here's an episode from our archive. Are personality tests any use? What can they tell us if anything? Or is it like a star-sign? Take the test! www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test Image: Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers. Courtesy of Katharine Myers via Wikipedia.
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Is it Still the Nineties?
19/07/2019 Duración: 30minIs it meaningful to assign personalities to the decades? Image: Ezekiel via Wikipedia Things mentioned in this podcast: - The thirty-year nostalgia cycle https://thepatterning.com/2017/02/13/the-nostalgia-pendulum-a-rolling-30-year-cycle-of-pop-culture-trends/ - When did the sixties really begin? https://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/02/06/when-did-sixties-really-begin-heres-why-it-matters - Did the nineties ever end? http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150205-the-1990s-never-ended - Life satisfaction over time https://ourworldindata.org/happiness-and-life-satisfaction For more Cognitive Engineering episodes find us on iTunes, Google Play or wherever you get your podcasts, or add this RSS feed to your preferred player: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:219479129/sounds.rss
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Happy Endings GoT SPOILER ALERT
12/07/2019 Duración: 29minGAME OF THRONES - SPOILER ALERT Was the ending contrived? Were you satisfied by the way it ended? What makes a good ending? Image: BagoGames via Flickr Things mentioned in this podcast: - ‘Creative Writing Now’ on endings https://www.creative-writing-now.com/story-endings.html - NYT article: closers and clinchers https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/anatomy-endings - Unconventional ending tropes https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoEnding - An IMDB poll of the ‘most iconic endings’ https://www.imdb.com/poll/b_LNZt0XG40/ For more Cognitive Engineering episodes find us on iTunes, Google Play or wherever you get your podcasts, or add this RSS feed to your preferred player: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:219479129/sounds.rss
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Scaling Up to Oblivion
08/07/2019 Duración: 30minWhy did Jamie's Italian fail? What goes wrong when businesses try to scale. Image: Scandic Hotels via Wikicommons Things mentioned in this podcast: - Problems in the casual dining sector https://www.bmmagazine.co.uk/opinion/why-are-uk-restaurant-chains-going-out-of-business/ - The largest restaurant chains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_fast_food_restaurant_chains For more Cognitive Engineering episodes find us on iTunes, Google Play or wherever you get your podcasts, or add this RSS feed to your preferred player: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:219479129/sounds.rss
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Chernobyl
28/06/2019 Duración: 35minHow can we avoid the end of the world through nuclear and other cataclysmic accidents? Could Chernobyl happen again? How can we design our systems and train our people to prevent accidents? We discuss with our guest Tom Plant. Image: Kamil Porembiński via Flickr Things mentioned in this podcast: - World nuclear industry status report https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/IMG/pdf/20180902wnisr2018-hr.pdf - Timeline of nuclear accidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_and_incidents - NYT article comparing nuclear with coal https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/nuclear-power-is-safest-way-to-make-electricity-according-to-2007-study/2011/03/22/AFQUbyQC_story.html?utm_term=.1cf223d52f55 - Long-run fatalities according to HSE http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/fatals.htm For more Cognitive Engineering episodes find us on iTunes, Google Play or wherever you get your podcasts, or add this RSS feed to your preferred player: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:219479129/sounds.
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Rest in Peeves: The Death of Grumpy Cat
21/06/2019 Duración: 23minGrumpy Cat dies aged seven: 'Some days are grumpier than others'. A loss the meme world. Memes, what are they? Do they have some property that makes them reproduce more effectively than other ideas. Image: Gage Skidmore via Flickr Things mentioned in this podcast: - Guardian obituary https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/17/grumpy-cat-dies-seven-internet-meme-gif - The Independent’s ‘Top Ten Memes of All Time’ https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/top-ten-memes-of-all-time-ever-most-popular-kermit-gangnam-style-a7707336.html - Know Your Meme https://knowyourmeme.com/ - A Unified Theory of Meme Death https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/12/a-unified-theory-of-meme-death/546866/ - Dancing Spiderman (not Ze Frank) https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dancing-spider-man - Ze Frank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ze_Frank - The 'E Meme' https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lord-farquaad-markiplier-e For more Cognitive Engineering episodes find us on iTunes, Google Play or wherever you get you
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The Perfect Chalk
14/06/2019 Duración: 23minThe Perfect Chalk Chalk has been used by humans as a communication tool for thousands of years. Are some technologies too good to be replaced? Image: contri via Flickr Things mentioned in this podcast: - 2015 article expounding the virtue of Hagoromo chalk (https://gizmodo.com/why-mathematicians-are-hoarding-this-special-type-of-ja-1711008881) For more Cognitive Engineering episodes find us on iTunes, Google Play or wherever you get your podcasts, or add this RSS feed to your preferred player: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:219479129/sounds.rss
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Influential v Popular
10/06/2019 Duración: 32minDoes listening to The Grateful Dead make you yearn to meet your maker, or do you acknowledge the seminality of their music? Is the term ‘influential’ overused nowadays? Image: Warner Bros. Records via Wikimedia Things mentioned in this podcast - Article analysing influence in pop music https://qz.com/quartzy/1133090/the-most-influential-pop-music-artists-of-all-time-according-to-social-network-analysis/ - Stanford School of Business on social media influencers https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/are-influencers-overrated - Article analysing survey data about why people follow influencers http://www.olapic.com/resources/consumers-follow-listen-trust-influencers_article/ - Federal Trade Commission reminding ‘influencers’ to disclose sponsorship https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2017/04/ftc-staff-reminds-influencers-brands-clearly-disclose For more Cognitive Engineering episodes find us on iTunes, Google Play or wherever you get your podcasts, or add this RSS feed to your preferred player: fe
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Stupidity and ignorance
04/06/2019 Duración: 29minCrystal Palace goalkeeper, Wayne Hennessey, provides an unintentional insight into the links between ignorance and stupidity. Image: Wayne Hennessey by Steindy via Wikimedia Things mentioned in this podcast: -Wayne Hennessey’s Nazi salute https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47946382 -Seymour (1929), A Study of the Relation between Knowledge, Intelligence, and Character (https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3088&context=theses) -Furnham and Chamorro-Premuzic (2006), Personality, Intelligence and General Knowledge (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1041608005000385) -Furnham et al (2010), Typical Intellectual Engagement, Big Five Personality Traits, Approaches to Learning and Cognitive Ability Predictors of Academic Performance (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1348/978185409X412147) -Psychology Today, Why Criminals are Less Intelligent than Non-Criminals (https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/201006/why-criminals-are-less-int
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Wasting celery
24/05/2019 Duración: 27minSome things seem difficult to purchase in the right quantities. Why do we always end up with too much celery in our fridge? Image: Peter Griffin via publicdomainpictures.net Things mentioned in this podcast: WRAP report on food and drink waste http://www.wrap.org.uk/sites/files/wrap/Household_food_and_drink_waste_in_the_UK_-_report.pdf For more Cognitive Engineering episodes find us on iTunes, Google Play or wherever you get your podcasts, or add this RSS feed to your preferred player: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:219479129/sounds.rss