What, Why & How do we Know ?
As 300 more go to a watery grave, can I just point out the the biggest problem facing us is not terrorism or evil conspiracies, rather the globally endemic cock-up of systematically lousy decision-making. My agenda to understand why and how to fix. (Some of the terrorism and reactionary evil is no doubt a symptom of … Continue reading “War on Lousy Decision-Making”
Apropos nothing in particular, great to see Gareth Bale enjoying success in the Champions League semi-final. Pic courtesy the BBC (oh, and Getty Images of course). And an excuse to try out the new WordPress 3.9 image drag / drop / resize features in the post editor. Simples. Despite the obvious direction of motion frozen in … Continue reading “Walking on Air”
Is it just me or is Putin playing the Russian hand as straight as could be in Ukraine? With the UK press and media, and the rhetoric of various international premiers and foreign secretaries casting him as the bad guy, almost clamouring for violent conflict I can see Russia’s point. OK, so as a “sovereign … Continue reading “Not Putin a Foot Wrong”
This is a retrospective blog on the beers I’ve experienced in the past 3 months, of weekly commuting to London. Brewdog bars in Camden, Shoreditch and Shepherds Bush, all on the itinerary, after Manchester, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Aberdeen (x2) the summer / autumn before, and a couple more before that. (Shoreditch BTW is by far my … Continue reading “Brewery Blogging @brewdog”
A month or so couple of weeks ago, I posted a holding post for a whole collection of posts I need to write. Despite more than a dozen significant posts since then, not to mention Tweets and Facebook posts, I’ve still barely acknowledged those I telegraphed then, even though some of the subject matter clearly … Continue reading “Post of Posts Catch-Up”
Another good post from Maria Popover at Brain Pickings fed via Facebook. Perhaps a bit obvious the list of “rules” in the Zen sense, but totally applicable to the education context – ie where education, education, education is the point of the exercise, though of course education, education & learning remains a major point of any … Continue reading “Don’t Analyse Creativity”
The need to blog is fairly intense at the moment, not just many interesting things happening in the world to comment on, and significant things happening in my world to write upon, but also multiple communication initiatives that look like opportunities to turn talk into attention and opportunities into progressive action: I am a fully-fledged … Continue reading “A Post of Posts”
(This is an ancient draft post from a year or two ago. Just decided to post it so I can link to the “rules of argumentation” resource it contains in another post on this subject about argumentation generally – NOT specifically related to the interminable God vs Science debate.) I’m an atheist. That is I don’t … Continue reading “Arguing with …. Anyone.”