Posted on January 28th, 2008 by Nigel Percy
Now here’s a thing.
Regular readers here will know that I quite like dowsing. In fact, I think it’s pretty close to being the bee’s knees. You will also know that I like strange things like earth energies and intuition. Well chaps (and chapesses) I can also admit when I come across something along these lines […]
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Posted on November 12th, 2007 by Nigel Percy
Perusing The Economist, as is my wont, my eye was drawn to an article titled ‘Automated decision-making; the death of expertise.’
As ever, I felt impelled to find out more for you.
The gist of it is that the author of a new book (a Mr Ayres of Yale university, since you ask, and the book is […]
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Posted on October 10th, 2007 by Nigel Percy
We return this week, dear reader, to one of my favorite topics, the placebo effect. I have written about this elsewhere (more specifically, in this link and this one).
You can imagine my joy, therefore, when I found this article which mentions it as well.
Being the UK Guardian it is a serious and concerned article which […]
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Posted on July 13th, 2007 by Nigel Percy
One of the great bugbears about intuition is that those who don’t believe it say that proof is not be found. (Apart from my feeling sorry for them missing out on a wonderful aspect of their innate humanity, I just get tired of their blinkered views.)
However, animals tend not to be deceptive in these areas. […]
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Posted on April 30th, 2007 by Nigel Percy
Now here’s something I had never heard of before!! Intuitive Eating is, apparently, a proven system of dietary control but encouraging you to take control of what you are eating rather than slavishly following a diet.
It sounds such a great idea…!
To learn more about it, watch this video of someone who has actually followed […]
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