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As individuals, we tend to gravitate to people who share and confirm our beliefs. But, in business, surrounding yourself with ‘yes men’ could prove to be perilous. Recent studies have shown that working in cognitively diverse groups boosts creativity and problem-solving. This playfully animated short features audio from a lecture by the British author Matthew Syed at the RSA in London in 2019, and borrows from his research for the book Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking (2019) to argue in favour of cognitive diversity as a tool for innovation.
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Design and fashion
A ceramicist puts her own bawdy spin on the folk language of pottery
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Animals and humans
Villagers struggle to keep their beloved, endangered ape population afloat
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Language and linguistics
Why Susan listens to recordings of herself speaking a language she no longer remembers
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Ethics
Plato saw little value in privacy. How do his ideas hold up in the information age?
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Information and communication
‘Astonished and somewhat terrified’ – Victorians’ reactions to the phonograph
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Engineering
From simple motors to levitating trains – how design shapes innovation
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Home
How an artist transformed a dilapidated hunting lodge into a house made of dreams
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Animals and humans
Are zoos and natural history museums born of a desire to understand, or to control?
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Archaeology
What’s an ancient Greek brick doing in a Sumerian city? An archeological investigation
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