Category: Teaching

  • 08/09/2014
    This is a nice post about a talk by Audrey Watters on how the dream of 'the' portal hasn't  died (unfortunately).…
  • 10/07/2014
    I like Gerd Gigerenzer’s writings (see for instance The Empire of Chance and Simple Heuristics that make us smart) and…
  • 01/07/2014
    There are some tremendous textbooks, Molecular Biology of the Cell, to quote an example, but many are dull. I understand…
  • 01/06/2014
    “it’s a worrying sign for philosophy in the academy. Someone who’s very good at conveying complex philosophical ideas in plain…
  • 24/03/2014
    Professor Cooper described a “very special pedagogy” at the university, based on face-to-face teaching, “high contact hours” and “intensive problem-solving”…
  • 28/01/2014
    The situation was a familiar one. Some time back, I was gossiping to a medical student, and he began to…