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Rory Sutherland | The Retirement Café Podcast
Advertising legend Rory Sutherland explains why the best ideas don't make rational sense: they make you feel more than they make you think. How this impacts our decision making
Rory Sutherland
My interview with @justinkingCFP for The Retirement Café #podcast on how consumer behaviour defies conventional logic time and again is now live!
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Boredom Is Good for Us | LBBOnline
Little Black Book, Jack Duddy, consultant at Ogilvy Behavioural Science Practice has some surprising insights that might be welcome to those in lockdown land
British American Tobacco working on plant-based coronavirus vaccine
Cigarette maker says tobacco plants offer potential for faster and safer drug development
California Coronavirus COVID-19 Response
We’re all in this together. We are working rapidly to keep our state healthy.
The world’s best virology lab isn’t where you think
If you ever doubt how clever evolution can be, remember that it may take a year or more for the brightest…
The world’s best virology lab isn’t where you think | The Spectator
If you ever doubt how clever evolution can be, remember that it may take a year or more for the brightest minds on the planet to find and approve a vaccine for the coronavirus. Yet 99 per cent of otherwise healthy people seem to have an immune...
SLOWDOWN - Danny Dorling
Danny Dorling, Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, looks at how human progress has been slowing down and why it's good for the planet, the economy and our lives.
F1 team helps to create coronavirus breathing aid
Thousands of the devices, which deliver oxygen to the lungs without needing a ventilator, could be made.
Rory Sutherland
The relative status of sports will never be the same again: motor-racing solves the problem which skiing has helped create!
BBC News - Coronavirus: Mercedes F1 to make breathing aid
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St Mildred and the Foundation of Minster-in-Thanet
A statue of St Mildred at Whippingham, on the Isle of Wight If I had to pick a favourite Anglo-Saxon abbess-saint, it would probably be t...
Times for the Times
Times and comments on the Times crossword from a team of solvers
The Telegraph
Rory Sutherland
Feeling clueless? Let us spell it out for you
This is not a bad time to learn how to solve cryptic crosswords. (NB in India, Canada, Aus, UK, NZ - they don't exist in the US much).
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Shtick to Business: What the Masters of Comedy Can Teach You about Breaking Rules, Being Fearless, and Building a Serious Career eBook: McGraw, Peter: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
Shtick to Business: What the Masters of Comedy Can Teach You about Breaking Rules, Being Fearless, and Building a Serious Career eBook: McGraw, Peter: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
Rory Sutherland
You can preorder this on Kindle for April 1st for the insane price of 99p. Highly recommend.
Shtick to Business: What the Masters of Comedy Can Teach You about ..... amazon.co.uk/dp/B085RSR2K8/… via @AmazonUK
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How Does the Coronavirus Behave Inside a Patient?
We’ve counted the viral spread across peoples; now we need to count it within people.
The trick that will let you have a conference call from your home phone | The Spectator
For the past 12 years, Roger Alton and I have shared this half page like Box and Cox: he writes fortnightly about sport and I write fortnightly about technology. Normally it would be Roger’s turn this week to cover sport.
Unfortunately there isn’t...
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Rory Sutherland
The trick that will let you have a conference call from your home phone
spectator.co.uk/article/the-tr… via @spectator
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Shelter at home with streaming episodes of Austin City Limits
Live music beacon Austin City Limits (ACL) is opening its archives as a gift to music fans during the current live music moratorium. Starting March 23, the perennial television series will make fan-favorite episodes from the recently broadcast...
A 2-Year Stanford Study Shows the Astonishing Productivity Boost of Working From Home
The jury had been out on the productivity effect of working from home. It's returned with a surprising verdict.
Anthony Roth Costanzo - Handel: Flavio, HWV 16 - Rompo i Lacci
Rory Sutherland
If you like Handel and you like Spaniels, you'll love this.....!
Anthony Roth Costanzo - Handel: Flavio, HWV 16 - Rompo i Lacci youtu.be/XcTS15OO0Bw via @YouTube HT @thebrowser
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Will quarantine for travellers become normal again? | The Spectator
It wasn’t a coincidence that the US government chose Ellis Island as an immigration station. The crucial word is ‘island’.
Had the RMS Titanic missed that fateful iceberg in 1912, she would eventually have taken up station at a quarantine area at...