Dear #IT 2015’ers,
Thank you again for letting me shower you with the evidence for feeling chirpy in 2015. As promised, here are all the links to everything I mentioned and discussed and gabbled on about. Have a cracker couple of days and don’t forget to get onto that sand and dip your feet into the big blue sea directly in front of Opal Cove while you can!
Warm regards,
Ruben
Keynote Links
INTRODUCTION:
A selection of the experiments and stories I have done on ABC TV over the years
Weight Loss – open access to my paper in the British Medical Journal
How to book me for a school visit via Young Australia Workshop
LASERS:
Tattoos and laser removal Catalyst | ABC TV
Retinal Injuries from a Handheld Laser Pointer New England Journal of Medicine
2014 Nobel Prize in Phyiscs – The Blue LED
Intracellular Microlasers (Nature Photonics, 27 July 2015)
Laser Holograms (Femtosecond Laser)
FLIR One Thermal Imaging Camera
Optimism #1 – MORE PEACEFUL: The decline of violence
The Better Angels of Our Nature the book by Professor Steven Pinker (2011)
The surprising decline in violence Steven Pinker’s 20min TED Talk
Steven Pinker: A History of Violence 37min talk at the Singularity Summit
Violence Vanquished essay featuring the two graphs in my slides
The News: A User’s Manual Allain de Botton
Optimism #2 – SMARTER: The Flynn Effect
The Mean IQ of Americans: Massive Gains 1932 to 1978 James Flynn (1984) Psychological Bulletin Vol. 95 No. 1
The Flynn Effect summary of the hypotheses by Indiana University’s Dr Jonathan Plucker
Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents’ Prof James Flynn’s TED Talk
Optimism #3 – NICER: The Bystander Effect and generation “Selfie”
“The bystander-effect: A meta-analytic review on bystander intervention in dangerous and non-dangerous emergencies.” Fischer, P. et al. (2011) Psychological bulletin Vol. 137 No.4 *subscription required
Bystander Effect YouTube video (3min 35sec)
The Murder of Kitty Genovese Wikipedia page with good citations to further reading
Generation Compassion the “selfie” kids are more selfless than we thought
Optimism #4 – GEEKIER: #STEM subjects are now “cool”
You don’t need links for this because you already knew 😉
Optimism #5 – Unsolved Mysteries
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
A brief history of the universe from Dr Karl’s Great Moments in Science
How do we know the universe is expanding also by Dr Karl
Random:
Seven things that don’t makes sense about gravity New Scientist
Top 8 Science Mysteries Popular Mechanics