This is totally off my usual topics, but I’m not really in the mood for a proper blog today – I’ve just got back from taking our oldest cat, Milo, on a one-way trip to our vet.
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blog readability
I thought it was time to check my readability once more – looks like I could slip in a few polysyllabics now & again 🙂 blog readability test
Continue readingthe benefits of science blogging
A couple of weeks ago one of the commenters on Ken Perrott’s Open Parachute pointed me at a paper about blogging (& in fact Ken’s already written about it). Shelley Batts & her colleagues have looked at the benefits of ‘institutional’ blogging – to the institution, the bloggers, and those reading the blog. I found it helpful […]
Continue readingso many books, so little time in the day
In the last couple of days I seem to have accumulated a pile of lovely enticing books to read. (& I didn’t even buy them – our wonderful science librarian sends new books through from time to time). I’m spoilt for choice, in fact. And I still haven’t finished Microcosm!
Continue readinga bit of friday humour
One of our students just came by to show me his t-shirt. I want one!
Continue readingan update on dr reiss & his ‘creationism’ comments
I see today that Dr Reiss has resigned from his position as director of education at the UK’s Royal Society, following the furore over his reported comments on the approach teachers should take to creationism. Having read the original report in the Guardian, and listened to the audio clip of his interview, I have to […]
Continue readinglooking for more science writing?
Then a good place to start would be this list of the 100 top science blogs. It’s a bit idiosyncratic (it misses out Pharyngula & Bad Science!) but there’s a good breadth of cover of things scientific. Including – drum roll – the NZ blog Open Parachute 🙂
Continue readinga most wonderful quote on the nature of humanity
Completely off-focus – but I found this quote on another blog, from Robert Ingersoll’s essay on "Why I Am an Agnostic", & it had a great deal of meaning for me. Too good not to share, in fact. Let us be true to ourselves — true to the facts we know, and let us, above […]
Continue readingmore in the occasional series: ‘what I’m reading’
And this one will probably confirm some folks in their belief that I’m a bit on the weird side. Why? Look at the title of my latest bit of bedtime reading – it’s Mary Roach’s book Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers…
Continue readingbeyond the farm & the theme park
Further to the previous post: Prof Callaghan has sent me a couple of links that you might like to follow. They’re both for streamed & downloadable videos. The first one is a lecture he gave round the country in December last year: Beyond the farm & the theme park. And the second link is to a […]
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