Academic Competency

Food is any substance consumed that provides energy and nutrition to our body and brain, and thus influences human development over a lifespan and over generations. Our ancestors started to consume bone marrow 3.5 Mya. This new 'diet' triggered a reduction of their guts and an expansion of their brains, giving room for new mental faculties. After the introduction of the Epipaleolithic, they baked the first bread and brewed the first beer. After the introduction of the Holocene, the agricultural revolution took place. During the Enlightenment, Swedish scientist Emanuel Swedenborg proposed a vegan diet in preparation for the second coming of Jesus. He was followed by Sylvester Graham and the Seventh Day Adventist church. In the 1950s John Yudkin warned about the negative consequences of eating sugar and carbs. He was outmaneuvered by Ancel Keys who proposed the diet-heart hypothesis, which evolved to the Eat well plate. The result: welfare diseases, including mental issues spread...

Last week I participated in the International Science Festival in Gothenburg with two talks consistent with the conference theme Astonishing thought – Creativity. Why do our species have a creative ability? The answer lies our evolutionary past. The human lineage started in Tugen Hills. Findings from the Afar region in northern Ethiopia suggests that our ancestors started to eat bone marrow ca 3.6 million years before the present. This new nutrient dense diet caused a reduction of their guts and expansion of their brains. Ambrose (2010) suggests that ~ 70 000 before present, constructive memory (Schacter and Addis, 2007) emerged. Creativity is responsible for all artifacts and will be the answer to establishing a sustainable future. 7 sidor. Please support the blog via Swish (Sweden), MobilePay (Finland) or Wise.

In March 2019, 270 academics claiming they are climate scientists, signed an op-ed to support a child prophet. Was the message rational or based on a mental fallacy? By applying a combination of epistemic vigilance and disjunctive reasoning, it's possible to sort out if the message is consistent with reality. Doomsday prophecies have occurred since before the common era and usually, the message includes a warning of a flood and demands for people to make swift changes of their life-style. There have been several child-prophets in these movements, but also adults. They are typically wrong. Since the 1950s, psychological science has explained why people fall victim to doomsaying. During the Cambrian explosion and the introduction of the Phanerozoic, CO2 – levels were 5000 – 7000 ppm in the Atmosphere and it was ~50% warmer. Since then, Earth has gone through at least 100 significant climate changes, and it has only become colder (Especially since the Eocene). Being absent from school...

Here I analyze the behavior of two talk show hosts, and compare them with other talk show hosts. Please support the blog via Swish (Sweden), MobilePay (Finland) or Wise.

What kind of leadership will influence market-based generative learning in any organization? I tried to answer that question in my doctoral thesis. The work was based on my experience as a performance coach, as well as four thesis's in Business administration and Psychology. Today's leadership emphasizes transformational leadership. I included that framework when I developed the leadership-model, which has a two-factor structure: goal-assignment, and decentralization of decision making of development of strategies to attain the goal. The criteria is social creativity. The statistical analysis confirmed the model. 4 pages. Please support the blog via Swish (Sweden), MobilePay (Finland) or Wise.

On February 6, Dr Rebecka Earle presented the lecture – Potatoes and the Pursuit of Happiness - at Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS). Dr. Earle told how various potentates around Europe marketed the potato, the consumption of which was assumed to be associated with experiencing the psychological phenomenon of happiness (happiness) which is also expected to be the same as well-being (Well-being). The potato was introduced in Sweden in the middle of the 17th century, and was planted in Uppsala University's medicinal garden, now known as the Linneträdgården. The potato's Glycemic index (GI) is between 63-78. Above 70 are considered high. Its Glycemic load (GL) is ~20. This indicates that consumption of large quantities of potatoes may result in welfare diseases. What people in the 18th century and onward assumed was about the experience of happiness was probably in fact about a reward experience that was explained by blood sugar going through the ceiling after they had m...