Category Archives: Ideas

ANG Cause of the month – Fisheries Management

Posted on August 2, 2017 by

ANG Cause of the Month – Fisheries Management Hi Dale – thanks for that (I think?) 😉 I made a comment on my facebook page this morning, which both Dale and Deb noted. Fisheries are really complex topics. Scientists can … Continue reading →

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Evonomics – corruption

Posted on August 2, 2017 by

Bribery, Cooperation, and the Evolution of Prosocial Institutions How the science of cooperation and cultural evolution will give us new tools in combating corruption. This paper opens with three assertions that to me are all false: “There is nothing natural … Continue reading →

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Ideapod – Tech-Solutions to our biggest social issues

Posted on July 28, 2017 by

Ideapod – Tech-Solutions “How can we use technology to solve some of our biggest social issues, including: financial inclusion domestic violence diversity & social inclusion in and out of the workforce To be effective #techforacause must go deep. Financial inclusion … Continue reading →

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Birding NZ – Double Standards

Posted on July 28, 2017 by

Birding NZ – Double Standards I’m not writing with my Hutton’s hat on, nor with my Zone Water Committee hat, but just as me, and I do chair both groups, and have both sets of perspectives. I find human behaviour … Continue reading →

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Ideapod – Freedom

Posted on July 28, 2017 by

Freedom – Bird in a cage – continued Hi Jessica, Not way off, nor quite accurate enough to be safe and useful. All actions have consequences. There is the very deep question as to the degree that we have thoughts, … Continue reading →

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Facebook – FoLogic – Are facts inventions or discoveries

Posted on July 28, 2017 by

Facebook Foundations of Logic group Are Facts inventions or discoveries? And science seems to be telling us that all such symbols have fuzzy boundaries beyond which confidence decays into chaos if pushed too hard. So that within constraints one can … Continue reading →

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Facebook – foundations of logic – science and scientists

Posted on July 28, 2017 by

Facebook group – the foundation of logic – Post on science and scientists I would say that science is the recursive process of using a combination of intuition, the best available tools of reason and logic, the best available tools … Continue reading →

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