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I never got any further with this. I’ll post it anyway, and please leave a comment if you notice this post!

I’m reading a book about pedagogy in higher education, and I’m presently trying to go through a chapter on course planning. It’s important and should be interesting, but I’m annoyed with having to handle sentences like this:

From The Onion: Woman Overjoyed By Giant Uterine Parasite Need I add anything?

I ended up at Nature Networks thanks to a post on my previous blog about a paper in TREE which claimed that the proportion of female authors was increased by double-blond peer review1. In a nutshell, I argued that there … Continue reading →

I really should write something serious today, but it’ll have to come later. Instead, I want to indulge you in some politics. I was woken by the World Service1 this morning, with this gem, a politician talking about “companies in … Continue reading →

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Earlier on this blog I derived some amusement from developments on the Biologic Institute’s webpage. Well, since then things have happened.

This idea of Martin Rundkvist is just too good not to pass on: Let’s Shoot Bits of Peter Higgs into the LHC! Now, if any of you physicists know of a good reason why this is a bad idea, kindly … Continue reading →

The web is fully of odd tests designed to reveal your true self. They all seem to be run by dating websites, which makes the one I just tried slightly disturbing. It’s the Dante’s Inferno Test (HT: John Wilkins). And … Continue reading →

I got a leaflet in my mail today about applied stats courses in Reading. One of them is Basic Statistics for Social Researchers, which makes me wonder whether they have web-based courses for anti-social researchers.