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November 8, 2016
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Populism and biased cognition: Donald Trump’s debt to our short-cutting brains

By EDIT Lab guest contributor | The Wider World

On the right, they denounce political correctness and the interference of the nanny-state. On the left, corporate cronyism and capitalism’s chosen ones, the ‘1%’, are the target of their ire. Might the success of populism’s class of 2016 owe a debt to our innate cognitive biases?

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November 8, 2016
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Reflections of a busy academic mum: Balancing different areas of your life

By Thalia Eley | Life Scientific

With 3 children (now aged 8, 10 and 12), a flexible but full-time job as an academic, and a host of activities I enjoy outside of work (most notably singing in a lot of concerts), one of the things I most often get asked about is how I balance these different interests…

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