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Growth, Reproduction, Generations and The Recession

Growth, Reproduction, Generations and The Recession

I was going to call this post “How Darwin could help us out of this recession” in honour of his 200th Birthday today. Apologies in advance for the length, but I hope it’s worth it. The last book I finished reading was Richard Dawkins‘ The Extended Phenotype. It was fantastic. Although it has given my [...]

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Wants, Needs and the Spectrum of Desire

I enjoy reading Seth Godin’s blog. He often has really clever insights and ideas about marketing and business, and his books are very good too. Recently he wrote a post entitled Hungry. An excerpt: By any traditional definition of the word, she wasn’t actually hungry. She didn’t need more fuel to power her through an [...]

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The Means are Not the Ends

The thoughts behind this post have been inspired by reading the comments and reactions to Damien Mulley‘s blog post about the Pat the Baker Bebo campaign. Most of the intial reaction to Damien’s post seems to all be based on a logical flaw, (and one that I notice frequently in arguments), that when a certain [...]

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