News and Updates

I watched a BBC film about Blencathra (a year in the life of) the other week.  In my younger life, I spent considerable time on that mountain and the film did justice to its fine sculpture: think blooming heather, time-lapse scudding...

I was rather uncharitable (quite uncharacteristically, so, I thought) about the Bristol TeachMeet last Thursday evening.  I'm happy to report that some 9 teachers did turn up.  I'm less happy to note that hardly any of them had heard of...

The I-SEE seminar on Tuesday 7 March is: From atoms to devices: materials design for new energy technologies and is given by Aron Walsh, Professor of Materials Design in the Department of Materials at Imperial.  Here's the Abstract The discovery of functional...

I'm off to SWLfSC's Teachmeet today.  I wrote about this 10 days ago and wondered whether I'd be talked at for the whole 2 hours It turns out that there are even more presentations than I thought: Big Picture stuff ESD...

WEEC 2017 has posted a list of three of its plenary speakers, and (whisper it those who dare) two of them might actually be worth listening to. The three are: Wade Davis, Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in...

I have a stake, as you know, in a renewable energy future.  As one of the co-owners of Semington A which contributes in a modest way to the grid's attempts to keep the lights on, I keep an eye on prices...

Deep in the night, a conversation about the bad press that foxes tend to get about what is claimed to be their habit of killing for the hell of it – think corpse-strewn hen houses across the land, bereft small-holders, curtailed egg...

Bond says it is the "civil society network for global change [that] brings people together to make the international development sector more effective". Bond hosts the Bond SDGs Group, which it says brings together 150 organisations in the UK who focus...

If there are half-truths, as there are, there must be half-lies as well.  So when is a lie not a lie?  When is it, for example, merely an untruth?  The Economist's Johnson column [ A taxonomy of dishonesty ] looked...

Now that the Trump administration has banned Wolves from entering the USA because of their plans to lay waste to native American sheep, there has been a flurry of protest on social media from #wolfactive, #letsre-wildthewolf, #wolvesagogo, #friendsofthewolf, #wolvesRus, #lawyers4wolves, etc,...