HOTTE #13: Is it explanation yet?
17 Apr 2018
A meditation on Newtonian mechanics, ‘life-history theory’, and optimal bus networks. Is it explanation yet? (PDF) Back to Hanging On To The Edges homepage
HOTTE #12: The worst thing about poverty is not having enough money
21 Mar 2018
Casinos, helicopter money, and the illusion of validity. The worst thing about poverty is not having enough money (PDF) Return to Hanging On To The Edges
HOTTE #11: Getting your head around the Universal Basic Income
13 Feb 2018
Big ideas, money for nothing, and the psychology of sharing out Getting your head around the Universal Basic Income (PDF) Back to the Hanging On To The Edges page
HOTTE #10: Waking up and going out to work in the uncanny valley
16 Jan 2018
‘The only thing worse than not getting cited is getting cited’, and other inter-disciplinary conceits: Uncanny valley.pdf Back to the Hanging On To The Edges page
HOTTE #9: The need for discipline
4 Dec 2017
A meditation on disciplinary boundaries, small worlds, and choral singing The need for discipline (PDF) Back to the Hanging On To The Edges page
HOTTE #8: What is cultural evolution like?
30 Oct 2017
A meditation on cultural Darwinism, evolutionary theory, and cross-country running. What is cultural evolution like (PDF). Return to the Hanging on to the Edges homepage.
HOTTE #7: Staying in the game
25 Sep 2017
A meditation on the highs and lows, the longs and shorts, of academic life. Staying in the game (PDF). Return to the Hanging on to the Edges home page.
HOTTE #6: The cultural and the agentic
5 Sep 2017
Reflections on culture, agency, and Herb Gintis’ Indiviuality and Entanglement. The cultural and the agentic (PDF) Return to the Hanging On To The Edges home page.
HOTTE #5: Let them eat cake!
26 Jun 2017
Reflections on hunger and food; their importance in explaining behaviour; their insufficient visibility in the contemporary human sciences; what peer reviewers don’t like; and the strange things we choose to focus on in our research. This is the last installment of Hanging On To The Edges until autumn 2017 Let them eat cake 1.0. (PDF) Return to the Hanging On To The Edges home page.
HOTTE #4: How My Theory Explains Everything: And Can Make You Healthier, Wealthier and Happier
31 May 2017
The fourth essay in Hanging On To The Edges. A reflection on why scientists behave like red jungle fowl, and a hesitant encomium to doubt and uncertainty. How my theory explains everything 1.0 (PDF)