Buddhism and the replication crisis: morale is high (PDF)
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HOTTE #13: Is it explanation yet?
A meditation on Newtonian mechanics, ‘life-history theory’, and optimal bus networks.
Is it explanation yet? (PDF)
HOTTE #12: The worst thing about poverty is not having enough money
Casinos, helicopter money, and the illusion of validity.
The worst thing about poverty is not having enough money (PDF)
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HOTTE #11: Getting your head around the Universal Basic Income
Big ideas, money for nothing, and the psychology of sharing out
Getting your head around the Universal Basic Income (PDF)
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HOTTE #10: Waking up and going out to work in the uncanny valley
‘The only thing worse than not getting cited is getting cited’, and other inter-disciplinary conceits: Uncanny valley.pdf
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HOTTE #9: The need for discipline
A meditation on disciplinary boundaries, small worlds, and choral singing
The need for discipline (PDF)
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HOTTE #8: What is cultural evolution like?
A meditation on cultural Darwinism, evolutionary theory, and cross-country running.
What is cultural evolution like (PDF).
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HOTTE #7: Staying in the game
A meditation on the highs and lows, the longs and shorts, of academic life.
Staying in the game (PDF).
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HOTTE #6: The cultural and the agentic
Reflections on culture, agency, and Herb Gintis’ Indiviuality and Entanglement.
The cultural and the agentic (PDF)
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HOTTE #5: Let them eat cake!
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)
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HOTTE #4: How My Theory Explains Everything: And Can Make You Healthier, Wealthier and Happier
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.
Update on the 2017 starling breeding season
The 2017 breeding season is nearly over in our colony. Here’s Starling Times 2017, a newsletter on how the birds have been doing, and what we have been up to–including our exciting TA-65 experiment……
HOTTE #3: What we talk about when we talk about biology
A reflection on humans, animals, and disciplinary distinctions, in homage to Ted Benton.
What we talk about when we talk about biology 2.0
HOTTE #2: Why inequality is bad
The second essay in the Hanging On To The Edges series. A meditation on Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett’s The Spirit Level, the ecological fallacy, and the complexities of being an academic.
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HOTTE #1: The mill that grinds young people old
This is the first essay in the Hanging On To The Edges series. A meditation in an English urban graveyard, with a slight nod of the head to Thomas Gray, another to Tony Harrison, and a guest appearance by Charles Dickens.
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