This should be essential reading for every learner, developer and teacher in the country. I can't wait to read the book: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028160.200-a-field-guide-to-bullshit.html?full=true
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Bad Science
Thanks for the link, Gary.
Sounds like a great companion to Bad Science by Ben Goldman.
http://www.badscience.net/2009/08/how-myths-are-made/
Pilar
whilst on the subject of BS and education…….
Can you guess what high and lofty topic this Senior Lecturer at a top University is discussing here?
"……..and it is an architecture – is self-consciously, ostentatiously baroque. It is rich in ornate, curious details, occasionally Moorish in provenance. Also in soaring, sometimes dizzy-making, shifts of register and in a lachrymose emotiveness that is almost impossible to resist."
Senior Lecturer in English at UCL Matthew Beaumont talking about the rock song "Bohemian Rhapsody"
doncha jus’ luv it?
Reminds me of cricket
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that’s in the side that’s in goes out, and when he’s out he comes in and the next man goes in until he’s out. When they are all out, the side that’s out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!
Simples!