Roger Cutting commented on the blog post Happy New Year Scientists Everywhere!
Yes, hello again! We’re back on the Blog again. Just wanted to add to Bernie’s good wishes for the New Year. Well, in terms of good science news, yesterday saw the leak in the US Governments...
View ArticleRoger Cutting wrote a new blog post: Love in the Ruins or My Romantic...
We were childhood sweethearts. I grew up the late 1960’s in south Essex, Britain’s Motown – a land of car plants, oil refineries and scrap metal. The great Essex marshes had long since been buried...
View ArticleRoger Cutting wrote a new blog post: Football, Racism and Science
So, what’s been the big news stories in the UK this week ? The Eurozone crisis? The Afghan War? The cold weather? No, the two major news stories dominating the media in all its forms have concerned a...
View ArticleRoger Cutting wrote a new blog post: Is anybody out there?
Sorry about the delay in this post. I was away this week at a conference in Florence, Italy that concerned science education. It was quite small, but delegates had come from all over the world to...
View ArticleRoger Cutting wrote a new blog post: My faith in no faith.
Well, the big news this week in the UK has been the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams. For those of you who may not know, the ‘Archbishop of Canterbury’ is the head of the...
View ArticleRoger Cutting wrote a new blog post: Science, seas and saving the world.
No, no, it’s me that needs to apologise for lateness! It was my turn to blog, but life rather caught up with me over the last few weeks. Anyhow, you get two this week both related to events that we...
View ArticleRoger Cutting wrote a new blog post: Tales from a Public Bar
For nearly thirty years now I have met up, two or three times a year, with a bunch of friends for a ‘social’ weekend of fun and frolics. At our last meet up we agreed, under the influence of drink,...
View ArticleRoger Cutting wrote a new blog post: Marking and the downshifting of science
Calling out around the world, are you ready for a brand new beat? Well the summers here and the time is right for… marking bloody student degree projects! Yes, the summer for me (and Bernie) has once...
View ArticleRoger Cutting commented on the blog post Marking and the downshifting of science
Absolutely Bernie. It is this lack of inventive thinking that worries me. Just anecdotally, last year I attended one of those “Here are some ‘whacky’ ideas for Science Week” seminars. We started by...
View ArticleRoger Cutting commented on the blog post Memory, falsity and how we know what...
Hang on…Not Ace, King, Ace, King Cole, Nat King Cole…err…King Not Ace…err… Is the answer the five of diamonds?
View ArticleRoger Cutting wrote a new blog post: The Science of Rock and Roll: You're...
I came across an interesting book this week called “Guitar Zero – The Science of Learning to be Musical” by Gary Marcus. He is a Professor in Psychology but I won’t hold that against him, as it’s an...
View ArticleRoger Cutting wrote a new post, “What’s so funny ‘bout peace, love and...
Hello again! I’m back (briefly) to add a quick entry. I’ve deserted Bernie and left him bravely struggling to maintain the blog while I’ve been busy writing a book on science for science teachers....
View ArticleRoger Cutting wrote a new post, The Gene Jeanie: Something about science and...
I’m sorry about the lateness of this blog, I have been ridiculously busy since Christmas with teaching, marking and general nonsense! This week I took my MSc students to a talk by the environmental...
View ArticleRoger Cutting commented on the post, The Gene Jeanie: Something about science...
Thanks for the comment Caroline. I often think that ‘certainty’ is as fertile as concrete and (to torture the metaphor) when you start throwing it around people get hurt. Doubt, is much more productive...
View ArticleRoger Cutting commented on the post, Different Ways of Knowing; or maybe...
Interesting points here Bernie, although one glaring omission from your typology (and one that forms endless titles for dull research seminars in education) is Knowing knowing. Knowledge derived...
View ArticleRoger Cutting wrote a new post, Why we need Mr Spock when it comes to...
If you are the person that follows this blog you’ll know that I’m trying to write book at the moment about teaching science (hence the slightly intermittent entries). Recently I’ve been working on a...
View ArticleRoger Cutting wrote a new post, Prawns, Porritt and the Science of Hope, on...
Every few weeks I get an email from Bernie, cheerfully pointing out that it’s my turn to blog. This always concerns me, as Bern is an experienced blogger with big things to say, whereas I always have...
View ArticleRoger Cutting wrote a new post, It's not Gravity, it's sticky feet! , on the...
I had a couple of emails from Bernie this week. The usual one reminding me to blog (where does the time go?) and a second suggesting that if I was stuck for something to write about I could pick up on...
View ArticleRoger Cutting commented on the post, It’s not Gravity, it’s sticky feet!, on...
Thanks for the comment Bernie. Perhaps I came over as a bit pious about people laughing at Creationists. When you do see what they get up to sometimes with young kids minds you realise how bigoted and...
View ArticleRoger Cutting wrote a new post, STOP PRESS: JOINT UK & CANADA SCIENCE TRIUMPH...
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