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Category: 2016-future Public Cognition
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Dr Neil Peach’s Dot-Points on “Political Problem”
Following insights on the structure of human life from Dr Michael Macklin, Dr Neil Peach wrote: “I can add some less remarkable points.” There is a predisposition in many social settings to avoid the political because – the small p and the capital P are conflated. Many genuine political discussions…
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Endless Reporting and Tracking, and Machine Non-Thinking
We have all experience it: Endless Reporting and Tracking, and Machine Non-Thinking. Here is a number which is meaningless: 3.6 millions are on Centrelink payments. Phillips and Narayanan (2021) of the ANU puts it more meaningful: The Australian social security system spends around $120 billion dollars in cash transfers…
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How I came into Cognition Histories and Cognition Sociology…
My childhood was innocent, until I became an angry adolescent on social justice issues, but still with the shyness of a conventional thinker. My university’s day was radicalisation, but no surprise there, but still holding in a liberalism, conventional, thinker’s outlook. When I worked for the Vice-Chancellors I kept my head down, but I learned a new…
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The new Brisbane Governance is stupid | Right solution for the wrong problem
I must thank, in person, “Just a silly Aussie that makes videos about urbanism in Switzerland and other places,” of the Streets and Scars of City Past. It is the technical evidence in the scholarship of transportation which demonstrates the technical evidence in the scholarship of cognition histories and sociology. Indeed, towards the…
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Hershey H. Friedman’s The education irony: when college degrees lead to unemployment, mindless thinking, debt, and despair
From Academia Mental Health and Well-Being Friedman, H. H. (2025) “The education irony: when college degrees lead to unemployment, mindless thinking, debt, and despair,” Academia Mental Health and Well-Being. Academia.edu Journals, 2(2). doi: 10.20935/MHealthWellB7661. The education irony: when college degrees lead to unemployment, mindless thinking, debt, and despair The_education_irony_when_college_degrees Abstract…
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Propaganda and Executive University Rhetoric
‘We can’t ask to turn the clock back. The resources just aren’t there’ As he takes up the presidency of Universities UK, Manchester Met vice-chancellor Malcolm Press today speaks to Times Higher Education about the financial challenges institutions face – and he’s under no illusions. “The government won’t always be able to do everything we…
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An Open Letter for Equity
By Dr Neville Buch, the opinions expressed are the author’s own On 24 July 2025, an “Open Letter to the Prime Minister: Restoring Equity in Higher Education” was produced by a distinguished group of individuals, “with a range of political beliefs whose contributions to Australian life owe significantly to our Bachelor of…
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No Blame: Understanding a Difficult Narrative
Many times, you hear a pattern of conversation, which goes: Person A: “Stop blaming me” Person B: “I’m not blaming you, you’re blaming me” Person A: “No, I am not. You are blaming me.” Person B: “No, I am not”… Bernard Williams did much work in understanding the problem of…
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Nobody gets too much Heaven no more
Nobody gets too much Heaven no more It’s much harder to come by I’m waiting in line Nobody gets too much love anymore It’s as high as a mountain And harder to climb 1979, Bee Gees, Too Much Heaven lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Int. Mgb Ltd., Unicef Music. Nostalgia is…
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Born Again: Persons and Movements (1974-2025)
Here is a panel of images of, technically, the same person, but also persons, plural, over time. On the left is me at the age of 13 years, on the right is me at age of 15 years. In the middle is me now. On the left is 1974 and on the right is 1976.…