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Behavioural Economics and Nudges: Shifting Paradigms in Decision-Making

The figure above demonstrates the Müller-Lyer illusion, where equal-length lines appear different due to cognitive processing, illustrating how perceptions can mislead us – a key concept in…

Modeling Ethics in Digital Environments

How do digital modeling experts shape how we conceptualise environments, extraction, and ethical stewardship? Simulations of forest growth and underground minerals shape how politicians and…

Happiness by Design?

Can good design make people happier? Early 20th century architects and writers believed it to be possible. Modernist designers sought not merely to create environments that were useful and beautiful…

Happiness in Times of Crisis: Pain, Precarity, and Planetary Suffering

The College of Integrative Studies and the Wee Kim Wee Centre are delighted to announce the 8th Annual SMU-Soka International Peace Symposium scheduled for 2 February 2024. This symposium, an annual…

若无闲事挂心头 | Aging Well in Singapore

“离苦得乐”是所有生物的本能。身为万物之灵的我们 - 有文字、有历史、有文明，对快乐与痛苦的思维和离苦得乐之道，当然更有认知。由于前人的睿智与刻苦，这一代的我们有幸享有前所未有的经社发展、优良的生活品质和完善的医疗体系，平均寿命也日益增长。

The Ethical Challenges of Leading

The real question about leadership is not “What is an ethical leader?” Instead, the question is, “Why is it difficult to be an ethical leader?” The answer to this question is inherent in the nature…

Does Disability Really Make Us Worse-Off?

Is disability bad? We certainly seem to think so. Most of us try to avoid disabilities in ourselves and our children, and our governments spend considerable resources on preventing and attempting to…

Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley

Most of us will work for most of our waking hours, for most of our life. Over the past forty years, highly skilled workers have been devoting more time and energy to their jobs than ever before,…

The Cloud is a Factory: An Environmental History of Computing

From Charles Babbage's Difference Engine to Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to the emergence of the ecological sciences and the modern petrochemical industry, information technologies have…

Disruptions in Biopharma and the Lifesciences - Surviving the Innovations of the Early 21st Century

The last 2 decades have seen giant leaps and transformations in the biopharma and lifesciences industry. At the start of the 21st Century, drug hunting and drug making still bore many of the vestiges…

9th Annual SMU-Ikeda Peace and Harmony Lecture - Achieving Peace Among the Major Powers

Geopolitics today is fraught with crisis, threats, and fear. The Ukraine War is a proxy war between Russia and the US, the two largest nuclear powers. US-China tensions threaten to escalate to war,…

Construal of Suffering Through Spaces Associated with Death

Through the autoethnographic aspects of her research in death studies, Khyati aims to discuss how death and suffering within the cultural, institutional, and ritual-based spaces associated with death…