John Banville on A World Appears by Michael Pollan — what is consciousness? The bestselling American author’s new book is an illuminating inquiry into the essence of being alive

John Banville on #AWorldAppears by @michaelpollan.bsky.social - What is #Consciousness?
www.ft.com/content/3a8b...
#TOK #NaturalSciences #HumanSciences

Do markets make us moral? New research describes how commerce shaped our culture

"The study supports both sides’ view of markets — they make it easier to co-operate with strangers but potentially weaken ties closer to home."

Do markets make us moral?
@soumayakeynes.ft.com: www.ft.com/content/3c33...
#TOK #HumanSciences #Ethics

recensie acute religious experiences - Psychiatrie en Filosofie

“Saville-Smith’s #book is a challenge to the secularization of the #soul in #psychiatry and the #humansciences, provoking the question: is there a distinction between #religious #experience and #mentalillness?” www.psychiatrieenfilosofie.nl/recensie-acu...

"Through his research in economic history, Joel Mokyr - awarded the 2025 prize in economic sciences - has demonstrated that a continual flow of useful knowledge is necessary.”

@nobelprize.bsky.social on X
#TOK #HumanSciences #Economics #PropositionalKnowledge #PrescriptiveKnowledge

The wrong kind of maths Why the mathematics used in economics for decades needs a rethink

The wrong kind of #Maths
@timharford.ft.com: on.ft.com/4ntbSJC
#TOK #HumanSciences #Economics #Essay5

Are you a prospective undergrad interested in the overlap between the biological & social sciences?

Discover the #HumanSciences course @ox.ac.uk at our next #OxOpenDay on Fri 19 Sept!

www.ihs.ox.ac.uk/human-scienc...

#OxHumSci

How economists lost traction Experts are struggling in a less predictable world rife with simple and popular answers

How economists lost traction:
on.ft.com/47g0200
#TOK #HumanSciences

The middle-aged are no longer the most miserable: www.economist.com/science-and-...
#TOK #HumanSciences

Replication Crisis
@xkcd.com: xkcd.com/3117/
#TOK #HumanSciences

How oil traders called the Middle East conflict [FREE TO READ] Open source intelligence and social media posts gave market participants confidence to sell despite turmoil

How oil traders called the Middle East conflict
@jamiesmythft.bsky.social: on.ft.com/3HY6b6v
#TOK #HumanSciences

The zero‑sum mindset is no mystery Stefanie Stantcheva’s economic survey of US citizens deserves the acclaim it has received

The zero‑sum mindset is no mystery
@timharford.ft.com: on.ft.com/4kdMzsY
#TOK #HumanSciences

What happened to the Trump protests?
@adamgrant.bsky.social: on.ft.com/4ca5PET
#TOK #KnowledgeAndPolitics #HumanSciences

Elon Musk is wrong about GDP The tech tycoon is not the first to misunderstand what gross domestic product is meant to measure

Elon Musk is wrong about #GDP
@timharford.ft.com: on.ft.com/4hRDzbm
#Geography #TOK #HumanSciences #Economics

2025 Programme - London Anthropology Day London Anthropology Day A university taster day for Year 12, 13, FE students, careers advisers and teachers, organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute.

We'll be at London Anthropology Day to chat about our department & programmes, including our undergrad courses in #HumanSciences and Archaeology & Anthropology.
Plus, Dr Lys Alcayna-Stevens will lecture on 'Pandemics and People'. Join us there!
More info: londonanthropologyday.co.uk/programme/

“The Traitors”, a reality TV show, offers a useful economics lesson It is a finite, sequential, incomplete information game

#TheTraitors, a reality TV show, offers a useful #Economics lesson: www.economist.com/finance-and-...
#TOK #HumanSciences

Anticipating how digitalisation will affect tourism employment in t... Introduction Digitalisation has increasingly become a major political, managerial and individual concern [WEF, 2020]. This is also the case in the Brussels-Capital Region (BCR) with a research call...

📰 New publication - Brussels Studies
👉 Anticipating how digitalisation will affect tourism employment in the Brussels-Capital Region
journals.openedition.org/brussels/8039

#Brussels #economicdevelopment #employment #innovation #employmentpolicies #socialsciences #humansciences #sciencessociales

#TOK #HumanSciences #KnowledgeAndPolitics
on.ft.com/3VZZiWy

@brianklaas.bsky.social's #Fluke is one of the best #TOK books of 2024, along with @adamfrank4.bsky.social, Marcelo Gleiser & @evanthompson.bsky.social's #TheBlindSpot: bigthink.com/13-8/why-sci...
#NaturalSciences #HumanSciences

#research #Ricerca #competitiveness #Health #environment #energy #sustainablefood #agriculture #transport #productionsystems #ICT #aerospace #humansciences #culturalheritage #socialsciences #bioethics #quantumsciences #quantumtechnologies #AI #IA #artificialintelligence

The Economic Philosophy of Donald Harris The Trump campaign has portrayed the Vice-President’s father as a Marxist. He insists he’s been caricatured.

The Economic Philosophy of Donald Harris
John Cassidy: www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...
#TOK #HumanSciences #Economics

Without chaos theory, social science will never understand the world | Aeon Essays Social scientists cling to simple models of reality – with disastrous results. Instead they must embrace chaos theory

The forces of chance
@brianklaas.bsky.social:
aeon.co/essays/witho...
#TOK #HumanSciences

The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking The Truth | Official Trailer
youtu.be/igUQwX6vZRU?...
#TOK #HumanSciences #Psychology

The Nobel for Econsplaining Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson won a prize for applying economics to the very things economics is inherently bad at figuring out

The Nobel for Econsplaining
@bhgreeley.bsky.social:
on.ft.com/4f844Iv
#TOK #HumanSciences #Economics

Are we allowed to be unimpressed by Nobel prize winners? Hope so. Professor Duncan Green shares his thoughts on Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, LSE Alums who have jointly received the 2024 Nobel Economics Prize for their contribution in …

Are we allowed to be unimpressed by Nobel prize winners? Hope so.
Duncan Green: blogs.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
#TOK #HumanSciences #Economics #Geography

‘Evidence banks’ can drive better decisions in public life From climate change to crime, repositories of good quality information are essential

‘Evidence banks’ can drive better decisions in public life
Anjana Ahuja: on.ft.com/486JLJn
#TOK #HumanSciences

Hello Doughnut! | DEAL Hello Doughnut! is the first set of Doughnut Economics foundational learning tools for schools and education. Welcome!

Hello Doughnut! is the first set of #DoughnutEconomics foundational learning tools for schools and education: doughnuteconomics.org/foundational...
#TOK #HumanSciences
@kateraworth.bsky.social

Economic Theory for the Real World | by James K. Galbraith - Project Syndicate James K. Galbraith offers a new conceptual framework based on twenty-first-century science and simple observation.

Economic Theory for the Real World
James K. Galbraith: www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/mod...
#TOK #HumanSciences

Day 1 #UNIQ summer school - the conversation is flowing, the attendees' questions are so insightful & challenging - really keeping us on our toes! This is going to be a great week!

The #archaeology, #anthropology & #humansciences of food & drink

Image: Banksy's Palaeo Art