We live in a time where the pace of change is frenetic. Twenty years ago, there was no Google and no Facebook. Amazon was still only a baby and Apple – while cool – was almost 4 years away from the launch of the iPod. It’s 2017 and those four companies now dominate our lives. So much so that Scott […]
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Civil Resettlement Units: the post-WW2 secret that changed how we help refugees
Last Thursday I went to a fascinating talk at the Wellcome Collection by Dr Alice White. It covered the work psychiatrists and psychologists from the Tavistock Institute carried out for the British Army during and after WW2. One part of this covered the selection process for choosing officers and how they helped introduce methods, such as non-verbal reasoning tests, word […]
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I’ve read some eye-opening books during 2017, but none more so than Oliver James’ Not In Your Genes. Subtitled “The real reasons children are like their parents”, the book reveals the truth about how little impact genes have on the way we turn out as people. At the core of this is the seemingly-little-known revelation that genes play no part […]
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