2012 has seen two substantial – and completely unanticipated – bits of press. 1) An article I wrote for the Evening Standard made the front page! 2) I went up against (or, as it turned out, with) Paxman on Newsnight. Video below…
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Sir Ken Robinson – Do Schools Kill Creativity?
As soon as a friend or acquaintance becomes interested in education, it is not long before they send me Sir Ken Robinson’s TED talk: Do Schools Kill Creativity? Accompanied with subject-lines like ‘Been kept up all night by this…’ or ‘SO TRUE!!’. Once a fellow believer, my short time in education has convinced me of …
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Matthew Parris vs. Clay Shirky
A great piece in Saturday’s Times from Matthew Parris on the speed and ease of communication – and its possible impact on liberty. Discussing the publication of the list of BNP members – and what bloggers have done with it: What has changed is not the principle of what may be done, but the effortlessness …
dysTalk – up and running
dysTalk went live on September 2nd, 2008. If anyone has any feedback, we’re all ears…
Re-living Memories
Below provides some interesting empirical evidence for the elegant words of Ed Cooke, whose talk on using one’s memory for great feats can be seen here. For the Brain, Remembering Is Like RelivingBy BENEDICT CAREYExcerpts from The New York Times September 4, 2008 Scientists have for the first time recorded individual brain cells in the …
Will Orr-Ewing 