Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.
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The unhealthy fallacy of food 'choices'
If you want people to stop eating bad food, stop selling it...Pat Thomas makes a plea for Government to stop tinkering around the edges of health and sustainability.
Pat Thomas,
Howl at the Moon blog, 21 May 2011
The tyranny of science
More and more scientists fancy themselves as gods, with a duty to enlighten those who are ‘deluded to the point of perversity’.
Tim Black,
spiked, 13 May 2011
3D printing – An ‘Industrial Revolution in the Digital Age’?
Lisa Harouni, whose company Digital Forming is bringing 3D printing to high-street fashion brands and consumer product designers, has just convinced even the most skeptical investors here that something transformative is about to happen to the whole business of making things.
David Rowan,
Wired, 9 May 2011
The Social Animal: A Story of How Success Happens
The unconscious mind, it turns out, is most of the mind - the place where the majority of the brain's work gets done, where our most important life decisions are made, where character is formed and the seeds of accomplishment grow.
David Brooks, Short Books Ltd,
5 May 2011
Tempests and tales: challenges to the study of sex differences in the brain
The topic of sex differences in brain and behavior continues to garner broad interest and generate considerable controversy. A spate of popular books in the past decade has heralded many of the recent advances in the study of the biological basis of human brain differences in relation to sex and gender. This flurry of attention has also generated lightning rods for criticism.
Margaret M McCarthy and Gregory F Ball,
Biology of Sex Differences, 28 April 2011
Nuclear energy: clean, reliable and powerful
Physicist Wade Allison expertly demolishes fears about radiation. If only he was equally as sceptical about the fear-fuelled climate-change panic.
Rob Lyons,
spiked, 15 April 2011
Zero Degrees of Empathy: a new theory of human cruelty
Simon Baron-Cohen, expert in autism and developmental psychopathology, has always wanted to isolate and understand the factors that cause people to treat others as if they were mere objects. In this book he proposes a radical shift, turning the focus away from evil and on to the central factor, empathy. Unlike the concept of evil, he argues, empathy has real explanatory power.
Simon Baron-Cohen, Allen Lane,
7 April 2011
The Brain Is Not an Explanation
Brain stories have become very popular in the news pages in recent years—and brain imaging stories especially, in part because of the colorful “pictures” that often accompany the data and analysis. But how much can we really conclude from these images? How skeptical should we be, as readers of the science pages in the paper?
Wray Herbert, Association for Psychological Science, 23 March 2011
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