Richard Fisher

Richard Fisher

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Richard Fisher discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Richard Fisher is the author of The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time, a senior journalist for BBC.com and an honorary research associate at University College London. He tweets @rifish and writes the newsletter The Long View: A Field Guide.

  1. Kent Cochrane https://slate.com/technology/2014/04/amnesia-patient-kc-was-kent-cochrane-the-hippocampus-makes-memories-personal.html

  2. Hutton’s Unconformity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esqxYO5vsEI

  3. The Future Library https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220630-the-norwegian-library-with-unreadable-books

  4. The sublime https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221205-the-upsides-of-feeling-small

  5. Google Earthview https://earth.google.com/web/

  6. The U-shaped happiness curve https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00148-020-00797-z


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