Category Archives: Ideas

The strange powers of placebo effect – TheProfessorFunk


“Placebo effect” is often dismissed as just a fake pill, yet most fancy expensive drug trials often struggle to show that medicines are better than placebo – even when half the unfavourable data is kept out of sight. In North … Continue reading

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there are no stars… Lou Reed


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the only way to deal with an unfree world…


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the whole gamut of human potential – Margaret Mead


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this is time to wake up – Russell Brand


Russell Brand guest – edited an issue of The New Statesman and wrote an assay about the  revolution that has started and is happening. If you are not part of it then it is time for you too to wake … Continue reading

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The easiest way to disagree with someone -Seth Godin


More wisdom from Seth Godin: this time on easy ways to disagree with someone. We like Seth, the only thing we’d add is that the easiest way to disagree with someone is made even easier if we assume that the … Continue reading

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choose your hallucination


the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think.
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I have a Dream – fifty years on


Fifty years ago today,  28th August 1963, Dr Martin Luther King Jr talking with  a few people on the Washington Mall. So,  it’s now five-score-and-fifty years of waiting:  and – despite much progress that has been made – the cheque that … Continue reading

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I can do anything good …


I can do anything good Need a way to coach yourself into gear ? Try this for an affirmation… . Jessica’s affirmation Now, my whole house, is great. I can do anything good. I like my school I like anything I like … Continue reading

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Giant Steps – John Coltrane


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