One price of scientific & technological progress is that we tend to rely more on specialist & 'experts' but can we spot one with or...

The 'brain as a bio-computer' metaphor is useful (to a point) and it certainly works to understand why we so hate change. It's not the...

Burn-out amongst healthcare clinicians has multiple causes but studies indicate that it rises in line with direct patient contact. If so,...

Can Peppa Pig teach us about Quality & Risk Management, or should we scrutinise the tales of old more closely? Christmas is a time for...

Work is a juggling act for many engineers with conflicting demands, information gaps and moving goalposts. As a result trade-off’s need...

Psychologists like Kahneman & Tversky (the first, a Nobel prize winner in economics) draw our attention to the important role that...

As technology advances, scientists and engineers alike face shorter ‘half-lives of knowledge’ i.e. the time it takes for their expertise...

Elon Musk made a bold claim recently that robots are “semi-sentient” yet reassured us that we can, at least, still “out-run” them...

Scientific empiricism helps engineers with risk-based decision-making. Equally, scientists who think like engineers apply useful...

Twenty+ years of research in the field of cognitive psychology has produced one Nobel prize (in economics for Daniel Kahneman) and...