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Cognitive Engineering

Summary: Welcome to the Cognitive Engineering podcast. Occasionally coherent musings of Aleph Insights. We hope you like listening to them as much as we like recording them.

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 Nostalgia | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:25:23

Are the British stuck in the past? Why do we keep going on about old victories and defeats? Do we look back more than other nations? Image: National Media Museum via WIkipedia

 Political Capital | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:25:55

What is political capital? Can you touch it, measure it? How does it work? Image: Number 10 via Wikipedia

 Dated Films | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:24:51

Why do some films age better than others? Image: https://www.starwars.com/news/the-5-most-grueling-star-wars-visual-effects

 Schedule vs Schedule | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:23:30

Which type of english is best? Why do we prefer the sound of some language over others?

 Ticket Touting | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:23:06

Is ticket touting wrong? Why? Is there a better way of deciding ticket pricing? Image: Mattia luigi Nappi via Wikipedia

 Football Cheats | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:26:14

Why is there a culture of cheating in some games and not others? Do some teams cheat more than other? Image: Mahmood Hosseini via Wikipedia

 Red Bad | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:27:37

Colour and meaning: Why do some colours seem to have some inherent meaning? How is it that we have cultural standards for colour to indicate meaning? Image: BagoGames via Flickr

 Virtually (Limitless) Reality | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:25:42

Virtual Reality promises great things. Headline often read along the lines of "VR will make any world possible". Is this true? Image: Maurizio Pesce via Flickr

 Friendly Computers | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:22:32

Why are computer interfaces always so friendly? Image: Loki, provided by Rhonda Oglesby via Flickr

 Language of immigration | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:24:51

How does use of language affect our attitude to immigration? Image: cytis via pixabay

 Democracies versus dictatorships | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:21:31

In light of the recent summit between North and South Korea, and the on-off bromance between President Trump and Kim Jong-Un, we ask the question whether democracies or dictatorships offer more certainty. Image: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen via Wikipedia

 Phew! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:23:05

Future dread and hindsight relief. Why do we experience dread and relief for some events?

 What's in a name? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:25:41

Men who change their surname when they get married are still unusual. Why is it important to some?

 Off-pitch referees | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:25:27

What's wrong with off-pitch referees? Do they make the game less beautiful? Do off-pitch refs make better or worse decisions? What effects does devolving decision-making have? Image: KeithJJ via Pixabay

 Seagulls | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:22:46

Why do we get so worked up about our territory? Where does the sense of what is ours come from? What is ownership anyway? Image: irenne56 via Pixnio

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