Trevor talks on BBC radio about how you can use your mind instead of painkillers in everyday situations, a subject his clumsiness makes very dear to his heart. Trevor Speaking on the Lynn Parsons show
The Science of Fear
This is an excellent book, on several levels. Firstly the book begins by describing the two different thinking systems used by our brain, which Gardner calls ‘Head’ and ‘Gut’. He does so in a beautifully lucid and interesting way, linking it clearly to our evolution. His description is next-to-identical with the model we use in […]
The Power of Appreciation
This seems to be a year when old men called Bill have brought me a lesson. When we moved home 4 years ago we joined a gym in Newmarket. We like to train early and, every morning as regular as clockwork, one of the people through the door with us would be a man called […]
Schrodinger’s cat – an explanation for the pub
One of the strengths of Quest is the Forum community we have. Over a 100 people visit it each day and posts cover an amazing range of topics, from client support, to business ideas, to upcoming training events, to funny YouTube videos. Tom Sedge is one of our top contributors who posted the following in […]
Einstein and my Nan
The other night I heard a quote on ER that I instantly loved. It originated from Einstein – the man was a machine for great quotes – and goes like this: “Reality is the most persistent illusion.” That’s been rattling round in my head ever since. Then, on Springwatch (I don’t watch that much […]
Remembering a quiet life
It was my Uncle Bill‘s funeral yesterday and I know this steps outside the bounds of my usual postings but I felt I wanted to share something, and hopefully why will become clearer to me as I write. Uncle Bill was a wonderfully warm part of my childhood. He was always looking for the humour […]
Trevor Speaking on Radio 4
It’s always fun to be involved in a broadcast, and to do so from the famous Radio 4/World Service studios was a particular thrill. The knocking noise you hear every now and again is me tapping a cast I was wearing at the time on the table while I tried to think of what to […]
Wait til you see the whites of their eyes
One of the differences that exist between humans and the other apes is the distinctive white around our pupils; apes tend to be much less differentiated. Researchers wondered if it conveyed a communication advantage to us to be able to see eye movement more clearly. In a clever experiment they got apes to watch a […]
Mirroring People
I think Mirror Neurons are one of the most exciting and important discoveries in neuroscience, and I have a feeling they could turn out to be the fundamental building blocks of consciousness itself. Marco Iacaboni has been involved in this area of research since they were first discovered and fascinatingly details the discoveries since and […]
Kluge
This book’s subtitle is ‘The haphazard construction of the human mind’, and the author builds his case brilliantly well. In the first few pages he demolishes the idea of Intelligent Design by his simple demonstration that our brain is anything but designed intelligently. The word Kluge is an engineering term for a makeshift solution – […]
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