Category: Comment
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Will the Yellow Bird soar again?
The last few weeks have seen a great fuss over the planned rise in Tuition Fees. Whether or not the rise is right, I think the Liberal Democrats will survive and flourish as a result… here’s why
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of politics and speciesism
Nothing much to see here… just a little ramble about politics, descrimination and speciesism…
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Science Is Vital: a Letter to my MP
Further to my blog-post “Vince Cable: Respectfully, You’re Wrong.” wherein I made my case for science and had a bit of a rant I’ve written to Caroline Nokes; my local MP, through the website http://www.writetothem.com
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Vince Cable: Respectfully, You’re Wrong.
Today the church bells of the scientific world are ringing loudly, it’s a call to arms for anyone in or wanting to be in scientific research in the UK, and here’s the reason why: – Vince Cable has passed his sentence; and Science is to Hang on the scaffold, with the UK sailing away from…
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Some thoughts on ScienceBlogging.org
Some thoughts and quibbles with the *Brand-Spanking-New* Science Blogging Aggregator at http://www.scienceblogging.org/
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“Blogging is powerful” (via Just Enjoy Him)
Howdy! I haven’t had much to say recently and for that I apologise, but I’m back home in Devon for a bit so will definitely have something for you soon enough. however when I last had “writers block” as such I was asked why I felt the need to blog, and this post may go…
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That Geological Mini-Documentary
A short post about my recent appearance presenting a short mini-documentary for a friend, where I pick up on the three most egregious errors within the film.
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Über-good news for bloggers, web-developers, nerds and computer geeks
In today’s Guardian newspaper there is an article on Internet Explorer 9.0 which made my day as a web-developer and blogger… is this the beginning of the end for work-arounds and hacks???
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The B!G Marking Experiment
I was walking around at the NOCS the other day and noticed an old issue of the Times Higher Education Magazine lying in the careers area of the student centre… whose headline was “The B!G Marking Experiment” and naturally I was intrigued and ended up reading the whole headline feature…
Benjamin David Brooks 