It is interesting to apply current thinking to decisions taken years ago. Whilst our greater knowledge today can make previous behaviours and thinking seem odd or plain wrong, there are also instances when applying todays approach would have stopped progress. In the...
Here is a little talked about, but critical issue for people aiming to reduce weight. To do so one has to burn or use up the fat stores in the body. The standard mantra (which I also have believed in the past) is a straight energy equation of calories in versus...
It has been an interesting month. The revelations about privacy breaches have severely dented trust in Facebook. Yet CEO Mark Zuckerberg waited five days before making any public utterance and then said he was ‘sorry that it happened”. Remind me again who is the boss...
We like to think that human civilisation advances and learns from history. To some degree that happens. However, it is uncanny how often the mistakes of history are repeated albeit in different ways and for different reasons. All the while those involved will deny any...
Why do we think the grass is always greener in some other pasture? This powerful and ubiquitous experience is rooted in a human nature tendency called the focusing illusion. The focusing illusion describes how humans make judgments. Generally, we focus on a subset of...
There are very few certainties in this world. There are even less in medicine. Yet one absolute is that to create a new human being requires a male sperm and a female egg. This is regardless of whether it occurs naturally or has medical assistance. It is also not...
