Tag: Mind Field blog
How To Live Long, Minus Disease
<!--Uday Deb--> Fasting, personalised nutrition, regular exercise Longevity is the new new holy grail. Naturally, therefore, the market offers magic diets, pills and exercises promising ... Read More
Why 100% proof is an illusion
<!--Uday Deb--> In wanting full explanations, people are disengaging with truth Mathematician and epidemiologist Adam Kucharski in Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty sets out ... Read More
Poetry & politics, in love & war
<!--Uday Deb--> Faiz’s work endures because its core is humanism It started like many love stories. An 18-year-old in Sialkot fell in love with a ... Read More
Iran: From the inside as well as outside
<!--Uday Deb--> 4 books, 4 vivid renderings of the country Shah of Shahs (1982) by Ryszard Kapuscinski is a reporter’s account of the days leading ... Read More
Haves’ guide to the lives of have-yachts
<!--Uday Deb--> Great wealth brings great isolation, and a siege mentality The most expensive car is worth only around $30mn and the most expensive watch, ... Read More
A closet of one’s own
<!--Uday Deb--> We all need privacy – to misspeak, to err, to be intimate To hold one opinion but voice another, is this inauthentic? To ... Read More
How To Find Planet B, And Get There Alive
<!--Uday Deb--> Earth will have a meltdown. What are our options? Tardigrades are little critters that were around before dinosaurs, and will eventually outlast us ... Read More
Do our brains shape our political views?
<!--Uday Deb--> Fascinating research on neuroscience of ideology Ideological extremism is usually explained by social, economic and demographic factors. There’s not enough research on how ... Read More
Bad old Joe and his politburo
How a Biden clique hid his mental incapacity In 2020 Biden won the US presidential election. In 2024 he ran again, until the Democratic Party ... Read More
Of Betrayals, Victories And Blockchains
<!--Uday Deb--> Comms wars are shaping our reality, but we can fight back We are in the midst of a communication war. From what we ... Read More