So, I am going to make short (under 2min 20sec) films about academic articles I have read. This will be under the heading "Looting the Ivory Toewer." It will help me solidify the concepts and empirics, and also improve my video/presentation skills. May help other folks, dunno. This first one is a bit rough, but... Continue Reading →
Research tips: “The Miss Triggs Problem”
So, I've been doing research - badly and then less badly until occasionally I have done it well-ish - for a while now. I am going to share - intermittently - some thoughts and maunderings about this. First up, the "Miss Triggs problem." There's the amazing cartoon from Punch which I don't think a woman... Continue Reading →
Rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic, or clearing the decks for action? Rishi Sunak’s reshuffle and its energy/environment policy implications
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has reshuffled his cabinet and split the business energy and industrial strategy department in two. What does all this mean? Is it window dressing and intra-government manoeuvring or a necessary reset? Marc Hudson investigates. BEIS is dead! Long live the EsNZ! In an announcement on Tuesday, Rishi Sunak, currently the... Continue Reading →
Of XR’s “The Big One” – likely numbers and likely consequences
In April the next (and final?) XR event will take place, in London. In January the organisation click-baited a "We Quit" statement (see here for more.) They are claiming they will get 100 thousand people to turn up and... (mill around? sell newspapers to each other? something else?) So, two things. First the numbers. There's... Continue Reading →
Lobbying for Net Zero “policy co-ordination”
I spent the last fifteen months looking at industrial decarbonisation in the UK. A lot of that time was spent interviewing people (civil servants, ex-civil servants, policymakers, trade association types, practitioners). It was a lot of fun (ymmv). One thing that was obvious before, and more obvious during, was that there is the "fun" (ymmv)... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
And none shall be saved, not even those whose job it is to do the saving... Wish I'd read this one as a teenager, alongside "The Catcher in the Rye". Oh well. It's a hell of an achievement - a novella (75 pages or so) following the misadventures and mental decline (from a low baseline)... Continue Reading →
Of Theseus, Vygotsky and the lack of dry docks for planks to be replaced
So the old puzzle goes - of Theseus's ship - if you replace the mast twice, the sails thrice and every plank of the hull over time, is it STILL, after all that the "original" Theseus' ship? (and, if it isn't anymore, when did it stop being so?) Then there's Lev Vygotsky, the Russian educational... Continue Reading →
On juggling five balls and keeping two eyes
A renewed target - by close of play on Tues 28 February 2023 I will juggle five balls in a basic cascade pattern. I can juggle four balls relatively confidently and I know the drills I need to do. And I have enough discipline to do them... Niels DuinkerInstructional videoTaylor GlennInstructional video1High toss three ball... Continue Reading →
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