Gullibility and the Triumph of the Con-Artists Glenn McLaren Uncategorized Dr. Glenn McLaren Gullibility is a failure of social intelligence in which a person is easily tricked or manipulated into an ill-advised course of action. It is closely related to credulity, which...
Jonathan Franzen, Climate Change and the Need for Imagination Glenn McLaren Uncategorized Dr. Glenn McLaren Where climate change is concerned, human imagination is a double-edged-sword. The seemingly controllable technological industrial utopia we imagined and built, has...
Is the Era of In-Class Education Coming to an End? Cristian Gallegos Uncategorized It's the 21st century and life as we currently know it is drastically different when compared to the last few decades. Cell phones have been introduced as a necessity in everyday life, the global population is...
Racism and the Scourge of Insecurity Glenn McLaren Uncategorized Racism and the Scourge of Insecurity Dr Glenn McLaren Whenever I think of racism I think of insecurity. We all battle with our insecurities. For some of us they are debilitating and prevent us...
New perspectives on science communication Faisal Hossain Uncategorized By Faisal Hossain and Claire Beveridge – University of Washington, WA; Colleen M. Iversen – Oak Ridge National Labs, TN; Patricia Silveyra – University of North Carolina, NC; Ali Nouri, Federation of...
‘The Good Place’: Good Show, Bad Ethics Glenn McLaren Society & Culture, Uncategorized My daughter and I have been watching a US TV series over the summer called ‘The Good Place’. We enjoy it and find it one of the funniest and cleverest comedies we have seen for some time. What makes it...
From Big Things Little Things Grow Glenn McLaren Uncategorized This article is for those who, like me, despair over the performance of our global leaders who seem intent on accelerating us towards self-destruction. I hope to give some guidance as to how we can judge them...
