Items to share (4 February)

• The ethics of brain boosting

• What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind? (Thanks to the Browser for these two links)

• The Rise of the New Groupthink: more from Susan Cain (and see Jim Hamlyn's comment on the 28 January post--thanks Jim.)

• Stuart Kauffman takes on the entire Western philosophical tradition! On The Inadequacy Of The Empiricist Tradition In Western Philosophy 

• By implication, Geoff Pullum would like to see political speeches run through Turnitin.

• This is stunning--worth a special trip to the V and A. (Thanks to Nigeness)

• Hello?

• Top five regrets of the dying: according to a palliative care nurse.

• Happy Groundhog Day (2 February) and here.

• Equality and Diversity Training: Cambridge University's Own Goal according to Mary Beard. Hear, hear! Interesting to think, though, how long it took Mary to write this excellent piece, compared with how long it took to tick the electronic boxes. I'm pretty confident of which was more valuable.

• All Hail the Stand-Up Meeting! And if Borgen is to be believed, they are the norm in Denmark.

• Brainstorming debate (and forget all the PC stuff about epilepsy--that community has no problem with the term): Against and  For.