The wonder of blunder
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A team of psychologists from Oxford, England, psychology firm Pearn Kandola, discovered that errors can be broken down into four main categories when they carried out an analysis of the mistakes of 230 prominent people. The largest category of mistakes stemmed from failings in dealing with information, either by looking at just part of the available information and ignoring contradictory evidence, or by making assumptions based on preconceptions. Mistakes also occurred when people acted on impulse, when they failed to follow their gut instincts, and when they failed to reflect on their actions.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1996
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Into the mature cycle
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The Darwin seminars run by the London School of Economics between 1995 and 1998 were hugely popular with the public and attracted considerable media attention yet organiser Helena Cronin announced at Christmas 1998 that they were to stop. Cronin felt that she could no longer act as a low-paid administrator to the detriment of her own research and writing. Paul Ekman of the University of California at San Francisco hopes that a way will be found for the seminars to continue since they acted as an international focus for Darwinian ideas, attracting intellectuals from all over the world.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1999
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Dialogue with disease
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Julie Theriot is a biologist who is carrying out research on basteria in Cambride, Massachussetts. She is a Whitehead Institute fellow with a staff of three and her own laboratory. Her research topics include movement of cells and communication between host cells and bacteria. Her father is a physicist and she initially wanted to follow the same career. Cell movement is important in both normal development and in the development and spread of tumours.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1995
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