December 4, 2019 Why do people lie and how often are you lied to? | BBC Ideas How often do you lie? And how often do you think other people lie to you? Chances are, it’s a lot more often than…
December 1, 2019 The real reason there’s no cure for your cold | BBC Ideas You’d think there should be a cure for the common cold. Scientists have been working on cold viruses for over 70 years, but they’ve…
November 30, 2019 How fractals can help you understand the universe | BBC Ideas What do galaxies, cloud formations, your nervous system, mountain ranges and coastlines all have in common? They all contain never ending patterns known as…
November 27, 2019 5 Latin phrases that are still meaningful today | BBC Ideas There are good reasons you see so many people with Latin tattoos. For a start, Latin is a highly economical language – you can…
November 22, 2019 Do we need to rethink addiction? | BBC Ideas My mantra on addiction is, “Not why the addiction, but why the pain.” If you want to look at what causes addiction, you have…
November 20, 2019 ‘Women are incomplete men’ and other absurd ancient beliefs | BBC Ideas The Greeks and Romans gave us so much that it’s little wonder we continue to sing their praises as great inventors, artists and writers….
November 14, 2019 What if all humans on Earth disappeared? | BBC Ideas …we don’t know how – that doesn’t matter. What we’d like to know is… What would a world without humans be like? Within days,…
November 13, 2019 How to write a perfect speech | BBC Ideas The secret behind any great speech… it all begins with the speaker, having somebody who has that world view, who knows what they want…
November 11, 2019 Three ways to spot a conspiracy theory | BBC Ideas Roswell… Bigfoot… Oh, that kind of thing. OK… Shape-shifting lizards. Interesting. Conspiracy theories do require a wild imaginative leap. I think we can explain…
November 7, 2019 High heels: A surprising history | BBC Ideas The first high heel ever was a piece of military footwear. People in West Asia had been tremendous horse riders, and that’s how they…
