Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
On the chosen theme for Scientiae Carnival for October. Last Friday I watched my former students (from my form class, a kind of quasi-pastoral care program involving being with a group of students since Year 8 ) graduate from their final year of high-school. Out of the fourteen, there were saw thirteen graduands from that [...]
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So, it’s Monday, and in a few days I’ll be on the road, again. Spot that recurring theme over the last few months or so on this blog? Here’s a few more directions I’ll be heading in, so you have a heads-up on how this blog will go from this week onwards. When I can, [...]
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Thanks to all submitters and readers to this PodBlack Cat hosted edition of Scientiae! I chose the theme of ‘A Voice In the Crowd’ due to my job this year: research assistant gathering qualitative data on engagement and retention in high schools. For the past few weeks, I’ve been travelling around the very big state [...]
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Gah, things are moving so fast for me here, with research, research, research. For a significant part of next week, I’ll be travelling, again. Part of the life I live now! It may be getting close to the time that I have to start cutting back on posting and begin coordinating for the rest of [...]
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Ha, in response to my entry to the Classic Science Papers challenge (all done! Check them out!), a friend sends me the following as a suggestion for my next entry (I believe A Blog Around the Clock’s Coturnix thinks it now should become a blog carnival?). ‘Social Factors Influencing Problem Solving In Women’ by Hoffman [...]
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For the Scientiae carnival, following the theme of ‘Added Weight’. The email featured a job description – which I couldn’t have. The Institution was going to start Something New. It was going to be competitive to enter, a program for the young elite. One of those cool things with the latest research and activities involved, [...]
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It’s been a little while since I’ve gone in depth on this topic, so it’s probably a good opportunity for a recap! Especially after just having read Tall Tales About The Mind And Brain: Separating Fact From Fiction, edited by Sergio Della Sala. I’m pulling together the literature review for my dissertation on beliefs of [...]
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Richard Saunders, on his many jaunts around Sydney, sends me this news broadcast: “This one is God’s” — yes, that’s what it says about that planet, thanks to the billboard outside All Saints church in Petersham. Huh. Just when the BBC reports that Astronomers have discovered what could be ‘the youngest planet’: An embryonic planet [...]
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