Cognitive Engineering

Chris, Peter and Fraser talk about being late and being early. Which is worse?

Peter, Fraser and Nick talk about the £2.42bn fine levied against Google by the European Commission for manipulating search results. Are monopolies in the tech world necessarily bad?

Chris, Nick and Fraser explore why the humbling of important public figures is particularly satisfying.

Was Theresa May right to call the general election? When sound decision making does not necessarily guarantee the outcome you want.

Peter, Nick and Fraser lament about the amnesia of humanity. How do you communicate with people in the future? How do you makes sure that important things don't get forgotten?

How much can we trust online rating systems? What can we infer from them? Peter, Chris and Fraser discuss.

Following the exposure of Facebook's content filtering rules, Peter, Chris and Fraser discuss censorship and ethics in data science.

Chris, Fraser and Nick discuss the public perception of WannaCry and what it tells us about how people perceive risk.

What are the Heebie Jeebies? What purpose do they serve?

Fraser, Nick, Chris and Peter discuss the their certainty in general election results.

Nick, Fraser, Chris and Peter discuss whether Cold is worse than Hot.

Chris, Peter, Nick and Fraser talk about what the seemingly idiotic behavior of flies tells us about the choices that human make.

Nick, Fraser, Chris and Peter discuss what the removal of constraints means for behaviour.

Peter, Fraser, Chris and Nick discuss mass surveillance. Is it a good thing, allowing better analysis or is it a dangerous erosion of privacy.

Nick, Chris, Fraser and Peter discuss the trolley problem in relation to the terrorist attack in Stockholm.

Do you show your frustration by hammering the lift call button? Peter, Nick and Fraser discuss the urge.

Nick, Peter and Fraser speak with special guest Michael Story of Good Judgement Inc about the uptake of good analytical practice.

Fraser, Nick and Peter talk about interfaces. What does the Blackberry keyboard tell us about generalisation and specialisation?

Peter, Nick and Fraser scrutinize the infamous distribution of pie between Bert and Ernie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am1FSGV5wRg

Peter, Fraser and Nick discuss the thought experiments of Derek Parfit.