Gimpy’s Blog

Science, So What About That Misuse Of Wikipedia (Revisited)?

by podblack on February 14, 2010

A little earlier I posted on some examples of what I’d usually consider to be plagiarism, in a post called Science – So What (?) Is Being Really Communicated About The Shape Of Jobs To Come? Now it’s been reported in the Time Higher Education Supplement! ‘Misleading’ science career report criticised, by Zoe Corbyn: A [...]

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Science – So What (?) Is Being Really Communicated About The Shape Of Jobs To Come?

by podblack on January 25, 2010

Thanks to the keen efforts of fellow bloggers in the UK like Gimpy’s Blog, Holford Watch, 10Minus9 and Evidence Matters, I did a little bit of reading on the recently produced report by Fast Future called ‘The Shape of Jobs to Come‘ (pdf). As a teacher of teenagers, I was somewhat interested in how it [...]

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Bloggers Behind Simon Singh – Where The News Is At

by podblack on August 19, 2008

My fellow Translucent Science bloggers, who have long been keeping a keen eye on the Dore developments whilst I’ve been busy travelling for research purposes, have all the buzz for you on what’s going on with the British Chiropractic Association vs Simon Singh. But first – there’s a brand new review out in the Wall [...]

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Sharon Begley On TAM6 And Penn & Teller

by podblack on June 29, 2008

So, whilst all the rah-rah rubbish about the ‘women to men’ ratio of The Amazing Meeting turned out to be a complete and utter non-issue (hey, just like I’ve said all along! What a surprise!!) – one of the female presenters did have something to say about the show. In particular, what she noticed about [...]

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