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Is technology good for us? #ThinkSmarter with James Wallman
Newspaper comments sections are filled with tidings of doom about how technology is hindering our minds; shortening our attention spans and depersonalising our relationships. James Wallman doesn’t...
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Think Smarter on… Starting Up: The Reading List
If you’re looking for inspiration whatever you’re starting up this January, help is at hand in the form of the Think Smarter reading list. For a chance to win the whole set, sign up to the Think...
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Think Smarter with Nicholas Carr: Welcome to Nowheresville
Author of The Glass Cage, Nicholas Carr, on where automation is taking us and the effect our increasing reliance on digital maps may be having on our minds. For a chance to win the Think Smarter...
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The five stages of Cryptocurrency recognition #ThinkSmarter
Challenging the world economic order is no mean feat, but that’s precisely what crytocurrencies, including BitCoin are doing as we speak. Authors Paul Vigna and Michael Casey explain the five stages of...
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Is this the future? #ThinkSmarter
Dale Shaw muses on whether we really are in the future (it is 2015 you know), according to predictions from classic science fiction authors. Let’s face it, so far the future has been a bit of a...
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This Changes Everything: Extract
Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything has just kicked off the Guardian’s major project on the climate crisis. Read an exclusive extract from the book’s conclusion. Recent years have been filled with...
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On the birth of a lamb
John Lewis-Stempel, farmer and author of the 2015 Wainwright Prize winning Meadowland, witnesses the delivery of a brand new sheep in this beautiful exclusive piece The moonlight is sufficient for me...
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When will I use math?
Jordan Ellenberg, author of How Not to Be Wrong on why mathematics isn’t just about linear curves and quadratic equations and why practice makes perfect when it comes to mastering the art of numbers....
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The Interview Illusion- Richard Nisbett
Read an extract from Mindware, Richard Nisbett’s practical guide to the most powerful tools of reasoning ever developed. Even when we’re highly knowledgeable about some domain, and highly knowledgeable...
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Joy makes you fast- Ed Caesar.
Ed Caesar, journalist and author of Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon gives his top tips for getting faster, whatever kind of runner you are. My book, Two Hours, is about the world’s...
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A good teacher is the one who answers “I am not sure”
In this exclusive piece, Carlo Rovelli looks at the value doubt brings to scientific research, and how uncertainty can bring about the most ground-breaking ideas in all fields. The Value of Doubt We...
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