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Cultural dementia
Prof. Andress explains why we love simple solutions to complicated problems.
Oct 13, 2025
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Ciarán Ryan
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You will never experience this precise sequence of events ever again in your lifetime
Unless you're reading this while sitting completely still in an otherwise empty vacuum and even then your eye would be twitching or something.
Jun 2, 2025
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Ciarán Ryan
We can electrify everything
Or nearly everything.
May 26, 2025
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Ciarán Ryan
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150 people run the world, supposedly
May 4, 2023
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Ciarán Ryan
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Criticism of Rory Sutherland's comments about capitalism
Sep 6, 2023
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Ciarán Ryan
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Flooding the zone
May 3, 2023
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Ciarán Ryan
Neoliberal deceit
Nov 18, 2024
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Ciarán Ryan
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Political lobbying exploits bounded rationality
Oct 18, 2024
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Ciarán Ryan
The Gervais Principle
Jul 26, 2023
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Neoliberal deceit
If every politician is lying to you, the guy that doesn't pretend to care about the truth looks (like a version of) honest.
Nov 18, 2024
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Ciarán Ryan
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Marginal gains
Small improvements can make a big difference.
Oct 21, 2024
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Ciarán Ryan
Political lobbying exploits bounded rationality
Why aren't more of us concerned about paid lobbying in politics? Perhaps because many of us won't consider the outsized efforts undertaken to sway…
Oct 18, 2024
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Ciarán Ryan
The double slit experiment and the limits of intuition
A reminder that pre-existing beliefs and prejudices are often inaccurate and insufficient.
Jan 22, 2024
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Ciarán Ryan
Why social media algorithms manipulate us
A succinct explanation.
Jan 8, 2024
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Ciarán Ryan
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The tragedy of the commons is not inevitable
People are not always purely self-interested.
Jan 1, 2024
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Ciarán Ryan
Reality tunnel
A useful metaphor that can remind us to check our biases.
Dec 25, 2023
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Ciarán Ryan
Courage calls to courage everywhere
I like the modern interpretation of this famous quote.
Sep 25, 2023
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Ciarán Ryan
Thought-terminating cliché
A form of loaded language that can be used to stop arguments from proceeding and end debate.
Sep 13, 2023
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