Rethink Reinvent Reposition, by former colleague Leo Hopf and William Welter is a great new book aimed at people looking at where to go next with a mature business: into decline, or onward and upward with renewal.

Cristóbal Vila has a way with computer modelling and 3D graphics that brings mathematics to life. Nature by Numbers is a short movie inspired by numbers, geometry and nature. Simply beautiful...

Gary Foshee walked to the lectern to present his talk. It consisted of the following three sentences: “I have two children. One is a boy born on a Tuesday. What is the probability I have two boys?”

My very first tweet, as I walked home having voted in the European elections, in the midst of the MP expenses scandal in May 2009, read, “Nothing beats the power of a new alternative. Unfortunately today there weren’t any.” A year later and I think we now do have a genuinely new alternative.

My friend Kimberley responded to my recent blog about voting with this great question. Is voting one of the small set of decisions that is really beyond (or should be) the scope of decision analysis?