INXS vs Australian Crawl for the award of Rockstars with the Worst Table Manners in a Music Video
Reading Time: 3 minutes The 1980s were a golden age for music videos, mainly due to MTV’s ceaseless promotion of its…
The seven habits of effective artists
Reading Time: < 1 minute Artists appear to like the number seven. Or at least artists that give presentations are fond of…
Conscious agents versus spacetime theory
Reading Time: < 1 minute I don’t pretend to understand much, if anything, of Dr Donald Hoffman’s theory of conscious agents. Dr…
ABC vs Ultravox: Best trench-coat worn by a male singer in a 1980s video
Reading Time: 4 minutes The 1980s are known for big hair, pastel clothing and lots of partying. Yet hardly anyone knows…
Is David Icke a genius or a crackpot?
Reading Time: < 1 minute David Icke, former British footballer and sport journalist, is either a genius or a crackpot. And plenty…
When the Hunger Games became the Met Gala
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Hunger Games is a successful movie franchise based on the popular book trilogy written by Suzanne…
How the Mitford sisters and the Kardashians reflect their times
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Mitford sisters were wealthy aristocrats from a quirky 20th century English family. The Kardashian/Jenner sisters are…
Neuromarketing: How advertisers fool your brain
Reading Time: 3 minutes What is neuromarketing? Neuromarketing uses the latest neuroscience discoveries to set prices the brain likes and to…
