Richard Bach, in his book Illusions, states a handy aphorism: Perspective – use it or lose it. Most years, RG&A shares amongst recreation and tourism management professionals several tools and concepts to help exercise our perspective. Each issue considers a range of issues from outside the leisure industry – from quantum physics to management theory. Each is a PDF file of between 50 and 200 KB.
Issue:
Topics: (Click on the Issue numbers below to view/download the newsletter PDF).
- The New Yorker
- Generations
- Things people say
- Fly no more
- The arrow of time
- Constructal law
- Matter transfer and death
- When your car is not a giraffe
- Sneezing
- Viruses
- Getting on
- Guess the mystery object (won by the CCC parks team)
- Free will
- Euler’s equation
- Natural frequencies
- Folle of Oromo
- Low-hanging fruit
- Roman numerals
- Sway, blink, think
- Lateral thinking
- Meta-ethical humour
- Doodling good
- Quantum entanglement
- Starting and stopping an auto
- A priori, post hoc
- Placebo
- Lalalalalala
- Gullibility
- Altruistic punishment
- Change is good
- Parkinson’s Law and Neeplphut’s Maxim
- Regret
- Escherichia coli
- Last orders
- Uncertain certainty (the fallacy of significance tests)
- Certain uncertainty (the improbable future)
- Carrot polarity
- I’m right. You’re not (eristic)
- I am right. You are wrong (water logic)
- Deadlines
- Being good (gaming theory)
- Not easy being green
- Plausible tosh (Wisdom of Crowds, Tipping Point)
- Vitamin G (gossip)
- Proving the pudding
- Relativity (special)
- Beautiful aliens
- Six degrees of separation
- Civil society
- Confabulation
- Cognitive dissonance
- Souming
- The butterfly effect
- Hawthorn effect
- Sensitive and sane
- Tragedy of the commons
- The sucker principle
- Risk homeostasis
- Subsidiarity
- Ethics
- Honesty
- The panda principle
- Reverse delegation
- Regression to the mean
- Occam’s razor
- Red Queen hypothesis