Conflicted Interests
Shifting outcomes requires shifts in our thinking about what works The science journal Nature recently published a thought piece looking
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science
Exploding goals and their myths
Goal-directed language guides much of our social policy, investment and quests for innovation without much thought of what that means
Read moreYou Want It Darker?
It is poetic irony on many levels that weeks after Leonard Cohen releases his album about the threat of death
Read moreWhen More is Less: The Information Paradox
There is a point at which information ceases to increase knowledge and understand and begins to undermine it, creating a
Read moreDecoding the change genome
Would we invest in something if we had little hard data to suggest what we could expect to gain from
Read moreThe Power, Peril and Promise of Health Journalism
The Toronto Star, Canada’s most widely read newspaper known for its investigative reporting gifted anti-vaccination audiences armament by using poor
Read moreThe urban legends of learning (and other inconvenient truths)
Learning styles, technology-driven teaching, and self-direction are all concepts that anyone interested in education should be familiar with, yet the
Read moreSane truths in Crazy Town: What Rob Ford’s story offers politics, science and journalism
A new book about Toronto’s (in)famous mayor reveals a great deal more than just a story of man known more
Read moreDevelopmental Evaluation and Complexity
Developmental evaluation is an approach (much like design thinking) to program assessment and valuation in domains of high complexity, change,
Read moreThe New Zombie
Information is everywhere (and if you live in cities, people might be everywhere, too) and yet the volume of information we see is overwhelmed by what we do not see. Zombies are among us like information and because of that information might be less attuned to what is going on around them. This has enormous consequences and most of it is not good.
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