Mind Games
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 Posted in Education, General | No Comments »Just a short note to tell you that I've finished working on my latest project, called MindGames. It's a fairly simple freely-downloadable game that lets you practice a selection of simple mental agility problems which will stretch your mind to ...
More cash for science!
Friday, March 6th, 2009 Posted in Education | No Comments »Woo! Finally the government does something right: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7924765.stm Now all they need to do is to start listening to what these scientists tell them, and we'll be fine. I was having a discussion with some colleagues yesterday about the role public funding should ...
Britain in the grip of stupidity epidemic
Friday, February 6th, 2009 Posted in Biology, Creationism, Education, Health | No Comments »The mind boggles. The "Rescuing Darwin Survey" was, IMHO, extraordinarily poor in its design; but that's only a tiny excuse for what is a colossal failure of education, the press, and, frankly, the national intelligence. 33% of adults in the survey believed that ...
Looking Ahead to 2009 – Part 1
Sunday, December 28th, 2008 Posted in Creationism, Education | 3 Comments »I'm going to do a post every day for the next four days looking forward to the positive and negative aspects that we can expect to see in 2009, looking from four different viewpoints. Firstly, today, I'm looking at the good ...
Questioning science
Monday, December 8th, 2008 Posted in Creationism, Education, Politics | No Comments »I think I finally understand one of the major objections that Creationists without scientific training (if that's not a tautology) put forward when arguing against Evolution and other associated theories. I realised something today when I was listening to the ...
UK Schools Rubbish: It’s Official!
Monday, December 1st, 2008 Posted in Education | No Comments »Two articles on BBC in the space of less than a week. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7755329.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7750717.stm Here's the original Royal Society of Chemistry press release. To cut a long story short - exams are getting too easy, and the so-called 'increase in standards in UK schools' ...
UK Kids to get finance lessons
Saturday, November 1st, 2008 Posted in Education, Politics | No Comments »I'm catching up on a few bits of recent news that I haven't written about. Also, there are a few more presentations on my site - see the tab at the top of this page for more details. I've finally ...
Slide Library is now Open!
Saturday, October 4th, 2008 Posted in Creationism, Education | No Comments »I have opened my new presentation library for a repository of my own powerpoint slides and text files explaining, as much as possible, every aspect of the evolution vs. creationism debate. I have based these on the slides of Kent ...
Magic in schools
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 Posted in Education | No Comments »I found this article on the Daily Mail site. No, don't worry, I don't actually read the Daily Mail - I found this from a link. But anyway, the article is talking about how we should have magic training in schools ...
What should kids learn at school?
Monday, September 8th, 2008 Posted in Education | No Comments »There's yet more chaos in the British school system at the moment as the minister for schools, the too-aptly-named-for-it-to-be-clever-to-make-fun-of-it Ed Balls, is contemplating changing the whole SAT examination system yet again. Part of me wants to just yell out "leave ...
