Category Archives: Life Sciences

When individuals are arranged into groups, such as organizations or leagues, there is a tendency to reify the distinction between them. Distinctions are not deemed to be revisable products of human categorization, but appear to be natural and purposeful. We … Continue reading →

Way back in February, WCC explored how individual effort is mediated by social forces. Research by Garcia & Tor has shown that people will try harder at a task when they perceive that they have less competition: in studies of … Continue reading →

The Futurology department at World Cup College is coordinating a multidisciplinary exercise to cultivate a vision of how the World Cup will be organized towards the end of this century. It is only in relatively recent years that human beings … Continue reading →

“What it’s really down to now…”, asserts the co-commentator with earnest conviction as the game approaches full-time, “…is who wants it the most!” This perspective is based on the belief that the team with the highest level of motivation will … Continue reading →

It is quite alarming that the Gerrard/Lampard central-midfield debate has been fully reignited in 2010. There shouldn’t really be any mystery as to why they don’t function as a centrally-located pairing in a 4-4-2. Under this arrangement it’s usually necessary … Continue reading →

By Dr Paul: It is the deep breath before the plunge. The calm before the storm. The gasp before the roar. The eve of the World Cup! In the build-up to this event, an event World Cup College has been … Continue reading →

Even though I know they’re no good for me, It’s the risk I take for the chemistry. Alexandra Burke Pain and pleasure are apparently at opposite ends of the emotional spectrum. Pain makes us feel bad, pleasure makes us feel good: … Continue reading →

Our ancestors survived because they grasped that the world follows patterned sequences of events, for example, weather has seasonal variations and night follows day. As pattern recognition is such a core feature of the human psyche, there is a tendency … Continue reading →