Unseen trends and the society we are becoming.
Societies are evolving and complex, which often makes it hard to see at any moment where things are going. It was thus with the move...
A World Anti-Hysteria Organisation?
The essential governance problem in March 2020 in Western countries was the overwhelming demand of the vast majority of the population to do something dramatic...
Cracking the code: How to tell what News Corp really thinks about the price of links
News Corp is telling us what Google should really pay for linking to its sites. It's telling us in code – HTML code. And the...
7 Questions and hypotheses for 2021
2020 was certainly a roller coaster for a social scientist, full of surprises. Let me not once again bemoan the increasingly coordinated attack on all...
What stock markets tell us about the covid-mania.
Stock markets give us a glimpse what people with money have deduced about world events before they happen. Investors can make mistakes, sometimes terrible mistakes,...
How others are organising the Covistance: ideas for those who want to help.
How are we going to escape the authoritarian nightmare and regain our liberties and zest for life? This long read is written for organisers of...
Constant distractions are leading to major declines in top-level reasoning. What to do?
Till 20 year ago, IQ scores in the West increased about 3 points per decade ever since the 1920s, a phenomenon known as the “Flynn...