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101 delightfully original illustrated tales in verse

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Caveat lector

As a long-term subscriber to more than one magazine, I’m perennially fascinated by the phenomenon of journalism. The conclusion I’ve … More

County Championship, cricket, Guardian, journalism, Judicious Sea-Turtle, Recognition heuristic, truth

Undue Celebration

Sport is good at throwing up very public examples of the human brain in action. The recently ended World Cup … More

Confirmation Bias, England, FIFA, football, Gareth Southgate, Graeme Souness, halo effect, politics, schemata, sports, World Cup

Break time

Now that spring is here and the clocks have gone forward, it’s time for a break from blogging. I’ve been … More

brain science, Change of Mind, Old Bunyard’s Philosophick Fables, Science in Music, Woody Allen

Evidently not

I once visited a place in southern Italy called Paestum, which used to be a major Greek settlement long before … More

American Declaration of Independence, False Consensus Effect, fourth estate, journalism, malaria, mosquitoes, Paestum, scientific method, self-evident, The Conciliatory Mosquito, Thomas Jefferson

Automaticity

One of the more curious mental phenomena in Old Bunyard’s Philosophick Fables is the one covered by the 92nd Fable, … More

automaticity, John Bargh, Old Bunyard’s Philosophick Fables, priming, Tiger Diplomacy, violence, Yale

Superstition

My 37th Fable, ‘The Foolish Monkeys’, concerns superstition. It tells the story of a group of simians who decide to … More

Enlightenment, mumbo-jumbo, Pew Research Centre, poltergeist, shamen, Sir Francis Bacon, superstition, The Foolish Monkeys

Champagne Perry

The biggest celebrity story of the week was probably Katy Perry’s Brit Awards protest. I admit that I know little … More

Brit Awards, Celebrity Worship, Corbyn, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Katy Perry, Manichean, protest, Reagan, Russell Brand, Status-Enhancing Overconfidence, Thatcher, The Dam-Building Raccoon, Theresa May, Virtue signalling

No half-and-half affair

Asked for his opinion of ‘Old Bunyard’s Philosophick Fables’, a psychology professor recently offered a compliment and some suggestions before … More

neural correlates, neuroscience, Old Bunyard’s Philosophick Fables, psychology

Fame for fame’s sake

I recently watched a surprisingly good 1950 movie called ‘Three Came Home’, concerning the real-life experiences of an American journalist … More

Celebrity Worship, David Bowie, Florence Desmond, Prince, Princess Diana, somatic marker, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, The Cygnet Who Was Canonised, Three Came Home

An eagle eye

If you’ve an eagle eye, you’ll have noticed that my 101st and last Fable, ‘The King of Stingers’, is unique … More

Aesop, Aristotle, Dutton and Aron, eagle, Misattribution of arousal, Old Bunyard’s Philosophick Fables, The King of Stingers, The Scorpion and the Frog

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