September 2011

  • I recycle, therefore I ...

    Listening to a bloke (a friend of the motorist) on Channel 4 News the other night, I came away thinking that the way to finish this sentence is probably: "... can do any dam'd thing I like." Well, in a...

  • John F Disinger – an appreciation

    John Disinger was an American environmental educator, and scholar.  His was often a rational and clear voice amid the competing clamour and battle as one disposition or other tried to out-shout another persuasion, particularly in the shameful culture wars that...

  • Google's name is mud(flats)

    I see that the near-saintly Google has fallen from grace with at least some of the chattering classes in the USA, if a recent Mudflats blog is anything to go by, and I'm grateful to Paul Vare for bringing this...

  • Endangered species spotted in Edinburgh

    A curious piece in today’s Telegraph about a speech by the Princess Royal’s being ‘disrupted’ (their emphasis).  She was in town to take over from her dad as Chancellor and was presenting JKR with some award or other for gifting...

  • Rambling locally – thinking globally?

    Now that Hetan Shah has moved on (and up) to the Royal Statistical Society – and I do wonder what odds you could have got against that a year ago – Think Global has acquired a new CEO: Tom Franklin who has...

  • Pestering Parents with Questions

    The Co-op has been researching children's and parents' views on environmental issues and concludes that "pupils want lessons on green issues".  This is good news for them as it fits nicely with their Green Schools Revolution programme. The Press Association...

  • Offering bad Advice to Brad

    If you'd like to experience a hapless simulation, waste your time, and be frustrated into the bargain, you need look no further than the Met Office's new game, advising Brad the ice cream man on the weather.   As the...

  • Banned from Blogging

    This is the fate of the LSE's Satoshi Kanazawa, reader in the university's department of management, who has been barred from publishing "in non-peer-reviewed outlets", as the LSE puts it.  Wow.  For the lurid details of his malfeasance, see the...

  • Put out more (Green) Flags

    UnTidy Britain is looking for additional judges for its Eco-schools top award – the green flag – because of the expansion of the scheme.   Its website says: Judges ensure that the standards the Award sets are high, but fair....

  • Brush up your Interviewing

    Even if you're not particularly interested in journalistic ethics (even if you know you should be), if you're a jobbing academic who does a bit of interviewing, the recent Bagehot column in the Economist is well worth a read (as are...