Items to share (3 March)

• Social history comes alive in these images of the East End of London of less than fifty years ago.

• Will we ever decode dreams?

• Michael Ruse  on Thomas Kuhns' The Structure of Scientific Revolutions 50 years on.

• Interesting piece arguing that in the Middle Ages it was usual to go to bed at sunset or shortly after, and then to get up again for an hour or two around midnight.

• Ben Goldacre argues for more randomised trials on social policy and initiatives across the piece as well as medical interventions

• Jean McNiff (of action-research fame) has a new website. (Thanks to Jim Crawley's delicious feed.)

• How Technology Shaped Our Metaphors for Remembering

• Based on marketing toothpaste, a different take on the traditional behavioural account of learning.

• A technological fix on how to make people shut up!