Arriving on campus this autumn, students may find their modules peculiarly devoid of Geoffrey Chaucer, Jane Austen, or Shakespeare’s sonnets.
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Nov2022 Title 2: Decolonisation, curricula whiteness & the 'Race Award Gap': TWE is open-mindedness in education provision driven by a 'mantra of inclusion [which] excludes serious thought'?
In the decades since his death, Nikola Tesla has taken on a mythical status among his devoted followers, who attribute to him all manner of groundbreaking – and ultimately suppressed – …
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Nov2022 Title 2: Tesla myths, electricity & numerology: unchecked open-mindedness to the works of a genius leads to conspiracy thinking...
How phenomenological tools can help foster a relationship of true listening between clinicians and people with psychosis
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Nov2022 Title 2 Epistemic injustice, hermeneutical injustice & the feelings of being unheard: how the apparent open-mindedness of psychiatric clinicians has limits...but there is a solution.
Once owners have been persuaded to put their faith in alternative treatments like homeopathy, it can be extremely hard for veterinary professionals to change their mind.
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Nov 2022 Title 2: Pet care, 'caregiver placebos' & the 'natural is best fallacy': when being open minded to alternative therapies for our suffering pets gives the illusion of healing...
Objective reality exists, but what can you know about it that isn't subjective. According to some neuroscientists, not much.
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Nov2022 Title 2: 'Thatcher Effect', metaphysical realism & scientific objectivity: we have to push open-mindedness to its limits & acknowledge that 'reality itself is transperspectival'...
Sufferers of sleep paralysis and exploding head syndrome would experience less distress if more medical professionals were familiar with these relatively common conditions.
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Nov2022 Title 2: Sleep paralysis, EHS & the suffering of their side-effects: How some medical professionals' open-mindedness doesn't go far enough...
My mother’s dementia shook her sense of self, and mine. We can understand ourselves only through embodied connection to others
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Nov2022 Title 2: Interpersonal neuroscience, embodied imagination & the 2nd person perspective: open-mindedness is only restrictive when we forget it is part of how we construct our knowledge of selfhood...
Many movies feature characters with dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder. But when researchers combed through all the psychiatric records from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for…View Post
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Tov2022 Title 2: Parasocial interaction, narrative transportation & 'the story paradox': how our openminded consumption of fictions can restrict 'our intellectual defenses' against extreme beliefs...
In Minneapolis, one judge is hoping that a controversial new program can reform homegrown ISIS recruits back into normal young Americans.
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Nov2022 Title 2: Terrorism, neo-Nazism & 'deradicalisation programs': how experts work to reverse the effects of extremist brainwashing when youthful open-mindedness is exploited...
Breaking news moves fast online, and it can be difficult to tell what's real and what's purposefully misleading or fake. Here's how to sort through it all.
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nov2022 Q2 War in Ukraine, propaganda & fake news: A guide to how we can restrain our open-mindedness from being pushed too far and becoming restrictive to our knowledge of current events.
Because I host a popular podcast, I often get solicitations to offer people to be interviewed on the show. They are mostly scientists and science-communicators with a new book to promote. This is actually a helpful resource, although I end up booking very few. One of the reasons for the low hit rate is that
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Nov2022 Title 2: Scalar light, divine energy & the age of quantum healing: providing a critical check to the tendency to push scientific open-mindedness too far...
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
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Nov2022 Title 2: Neuroscience, psychology & reductionism: how our open-minded 'love of brain-based explanations' is a form of bias...
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