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EER breaks the 2.594 barrier
The 2017 Journal Citation Reports & Impact Factors have just been released by Clarivate, and it's reported that the Impact Factor of Environmental Education Research has increased from 1.709 to 2.595 – don't you just love the precision. This means that...
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Curriculum French style
I see that the firm hand of the State has decreed that all French 10 year olds will sing the anthem in public. All of it, I wonder: Arise, children of the Fatherland, The day of glory has arrived! Against us, tyranny's Bloody standard is...
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Sheep 0 – 1 Friends of rank grasses
I see that James Rebanks [note 1] has been hounded [note 2], by the Friends of Rank Grasses [FRG] masquerading as conservationists, off a Govian panel reviewing the future of the national parks. The Times said: "Mr Rebanks said that...
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Schadenfreude begins at home
Regular readers know that I'm no fan of Mrs M (actually, of either Mrs Ms, but it's the German one who appalls me the most). I follow the train wreck of her policy mishaps with particular interest not only because...
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Biomass blues
Were you someone who immediately thought that there was a problem with using biomass to fuel large power stations (such as Drax)? Did you say, 'Hang on a bit! Why are we trucking wood products to US ports, shipping them...
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Remembering Eunice Foote
An email last week from David Terry, editor of the valuable BEACONS Guides to Climate Change in which he discusses the sadly little known Eunice Foote, who was the first to discover greenhouse gases. The book that Paul Vare and I wrote recently:...
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Four modern German proverbs
Depending on your source, German proverbs can feel similar to English ones – or quite different. See, for example, this – and this. My favourite in these collections is this: A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs...
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The first UN-ESD award for the ASE
No; UN-ESD is not some new desperate acronym invented by UNESCO. Rather, it's an award to the UK's Association for Science Education for managing to ignore ESD for so long. Whilst some may think that the ASE's long and sustained...
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Stay at home for decency
Einstein was a racist we're now told. So, as well as being less than progressive in his attitudes to family, it seems that Mr E has been caught expressing less than equitable views about people of ethnicities other than his...
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DEFRA goes postmodern
Today is the closing date for expressions of interest in a £10m DEFRA scheme to "enable children in England, particularly those from disadvantaged areas, to be close to nature in and out of school in order to support their health...
