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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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Podcasts:

 Useful Computer Games | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:21:13

Fraser, Nick, Peter and Chris discuss computer games and simulations. How are they useful to real life decision makers?

 Drugs and Prohibition | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:23:22

Nick, Fraser, Chris and Peter talk (soberly) about prohibition of harmful substances.

 Sibling Rivalry | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:21:11

Fraser, Chris, Peter and Nick discuss what sibling rivalry. What's it for?

 Late vs Early | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:27:17

Chris, Peter and Fraser talk about being late and being early. Which is worse?

 Naughty Google | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:21:29

Peter, Fraser and Nick talk about the £2.42bn fine levied against Google by the European Commission for manipulating search results. Are monopolies in the tech world necessarily bad?

 Political Schadenfreude | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:19:05

Chris, Nick and Fraser explore why the humbling of important public figures is particularly satisfying.

 Good Decision Bad Outcome | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:20:44

Was Theresa May right to call the general election? When sound decision making does not necessarily guarantee the outcome you want.

 Preserving History | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:26:14

Peter, Nick and Fraser lament about the amnesia of humanity. How do you communicate with people in the future? How do you makes sure that important things don't get forgotten?

 Online Rating Systems | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:24:23

How much can we trust online rating systems? What can we infer from them? Peter, Chris and Fraser discuss.

 Facebook Censorship | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:28:19

Following the exposure of Facebook's content filtering rules, Peter, Chris and Fraser discuss censorship and ethics in data science.

 WannaCry and risk perception | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:24:01

Chris, Fraser and Nick discuss the public perception of WannaCry and what it tells us about how people perceive risk.

 Heebie Jeebies | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:27:28

What are the Heebie Jeebies? What purpose do they serve?

 General Election | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:24:41

Fraser, Nick, Chris and Peter discuss the their certainty in general election results.

 Cold vs Hot | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:24:43

Nick, Fraser, Chris and Peter discuss whether Cold is worse than Hot.

 Stupid Flies, Stupid Humans? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:19:16

Chris, Peter, Nick and Fraser talk about what the seemingly idiotic behavior of flies tells us about the choices that human make.

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