Category: Learning

  • 13/02/2023
    Not all can be learned The fertile hatred had dried up in Grosz's headlong attempt transform himself into an American…
  • 19/08/2020
    I read Educated by Tara Westover earlier this year (it was published in 2018 and was a best seller). It…
  • 18/06/2020
    Story 1 I started my dermatological career in Vienna in the mid-1980s as a guest (I am deliberately not using…
  • 06/04/2020
    35 years ago, Isaac Asimov was asked by the Star to predict the world of 2019. Here is what he…
  • 16/01/2020
    Diseases of Deans Woodrow Wilson once remarked that it is easier to change the location of a cemetery than it…
  • 04/11/2019
    The quote below is from a paper in PNAS on how students misjudge their learning and what strategies maximise learning.…
  • 18/09/2019
    Chambers Street is closed for the filming of Fast and Furious 9, or so my regular barista at Bobby’s tells…
  • 25/08/2019
    Education is an experience understood in tranquillity Nice few words about Charles Handy in the Economist who has been recovering…
  • 10/06/2019
    Transfer A not wildly unsurprising comment to anybody in the ‘modern’ university.  A comment Russ Roberts made in an interview…
  • 29/04/2019
    Sydney Brenner has died. Not quite the last of the handful of scientists who made one of the two scientific…