Ever feel yourself completely overwhelmed by the flood of information which is reaching you everyday? One senior member of the LSS Editorial Board told us “Every day I get up to the BBC Radio 4. Then there’s the Guardian, the Mail, Nature Briefings, Apple News, the Conversation. El Pais and Radio Nacional (gotta keep up the old Spanish) to hack through. With occasional dips into things like The New European, New Scientist and Private Eye. To say nothing of all my acquaintances. relatives and colleagues bombarding me with their various obsessions and threats of invitations to dinner via things like Facebook, You tube, tik tok what’s app and a dozen other platforms that, in a saner world, would have been left to the young, the poor and the baseball capped”
It was the great Simon Kuper who advised his readers “read less and read better” Think about what you read, too. Apply all those tiresome rules of logic and evidence. Da quod jubis, et jubis quod da as the old Romans used to say. To this end we thought we’d drop our old Weekly round up for a while, as you don’t need yet another “that was good-what was it again? scan feature. Instead we are going to choose, from all the efforts flitting over our screens, a single best piece of the week.
One that makes new connections, tells us thing we truly didn’t know, or solves a problem we’ve been struggling with for years
We hope you like the change.
Learning, Science and Society 