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  • Teaching, Web2.0 and Teaching Web2.0

    Yesterday I was at an event organised with the HEA centre for Biosciences, Enhancing learning through Web2.0. I thought it was a very good day. I didn’t get exactly what I wanted out of the day. What I was hoping for something to help me build a workshop for teaching Web2.0 tools to students. The [...]

  • Astrology in the Infinite Monkey Cage

    The Infinite Monkey Cage tackled astrology this week, amongst other things. Ben Miller visited to Jonathan Cainer, astrologer extraordinaire, to see how astrology works. This seems to have come as a shock to Prof. Brian Cox who doesn’t think that it works. Ben Miller, who was ABD in Physics, argued it did work. For Ben [...]

  • There seems to be some confusion about what science journalism is

    This will be the last climate change post of the year. The reason it’s going up is because while I was writing tomorrow’s entry. my RSS box pinged with this blog post from Ed Darrell, which is well worth reading. It’s a simple illustration of the use of double standards.
    Recently I commented on the reporting [...]

  • A Titanic victory for the skeptics

    I don’t know about you but I’ve been absolutely riveted by the recent release of records from a break-in at the White Star line. No really, it’s not just a stream of bilge from people who may not be experts but reckon something. Frankly I can’t get enough of hearing about the same claim that [...]

  • REF & ʇɔɐdɯı lɐɹnʇlnɔ

    At the start I should make clear that I am not an expert and I can’t say for certain exactly what Impact is. The reason I’m writing this is that sadly no one else can say what Impact is either, though HEFCE has a go. That’s a problem, because it’s going to play a big [...]

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  • Confidence Intervals 2009/11/28
  • The Academic Journal Racket « In the Dark 2009/11/18
    Telescoper explains how academic publishing works. The only thing that would improbe the post would be the theme from 'The Naked Gun' in the background.
  • A Case in Antiquities for ‘Finders Keepers’ - NYTimes.com 2009/11/17
    You can make arguments in favour of repatriation of antiquities. You can make arguements against. Being on either side doesn't make you inherently foolish. But when you write that the British Army took the Rosetta Stone from the French and "returned it to the British Museum" then something has gone wrong. It's probably a case of momentary brainfade rather than idiocy, but it matters because the whole question of ownership of the Rosetta Stone is about where it rightfully belongs. Using the word 'returned' builds in the assumption that all antiquities are inherently British.
  • Notes & Queries; Sledges - Theoretical Structural Archaeology 2009/11/17
    Geoff Carter concluded he didn't have evidence for a staggeringly early cart shed in Poland. Could it have been a used to house a sledge? I've just realised I know absolutely nothing at all about the history of sleds and sledges. Not only that, but I can't recall much attention being called to them in early prehistoric archaeology other than when people want to talk about moving megaliths to Stonehenge. Yet Martha Murphy (guest blogging) shows there's plenty of questions to ask about neolithic transport.
  • British bank turns to treasure hunting via @johnabartram 2009/11/17
    Avast me hearties! Robert Fraser & Partners be scourin' the high seas in search of booty. They be fundin' Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. ter search the Caribbean fer Spanish gold. Arrr!

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