ignorance

A load of old parabolics from loiswakeman 633 days old

One of the pleasures of Sunday afternoons in my pottery is listening to Open Book - one of Radio 4's better literary efforts. Presented by the wonderfully ...

Lies, damn lies and statistics from loiswakeman 652 days old

Although I didn't ever formally study stats at university, I like to think I have a reasonable appreciation of their simpler points. So, I am always ...

Exploding trees - sheesh from loiswakeman 673 days old

The Today programme on BBC Radio 4 had me spluttering into my tea this morning, with news of a new genus of palm recently identified in Madagascar by ...

Green but dim from loiswakeman 799 days old

Two things caught my attention today on the Today programme. First, a piece about Terry Leahy's allegation yesterday that it was not practical for ...

Biology is for girlies from loiswakeman 910 days old

"Do we actually need biology in this technological age?" – John Humphreys on the Today Programme this morning. My opinion of journalists is not high ...

Shock horror gasp - foxes exposed as vicious killers from loiswakeman 949 days old

"In animal-loving Britain, not all humans are as exasperated as Howard, whose daughter’s chickens keep getting slaughtered: Alan and June put out chicken ...

Yikes: big science from loiswakeman 996 days old

Lunchtime news coverage of the current preparations for the supercollider at CERN were predictably weedy. The BBC's science correspondent (he has a hapless ...

Science - who cares? from loiswakeman 1019 days old

A recent post in Life's Lessons' blog [edit: now defunct] brought up a topic I had thought about twice this past week. For some reason, it is often acceptable ...