This morning I woke up to read this in the Daily Telegraph:
Can we please forget about Charles Darwin?
As we celebrate Charles Darwin's anniversary, a leading geneticist argues that our understanding of evolution would be much improved if we removed Darwin's life - and pointless references to religion - from the equation.
What do you all think? I'm in the middle of a working day, so I can't put my own thoughts down right now.
I like stirring, so here is this recent University Press Release (27 January 2009):
'Censoring' language is key to female survival in the boardroom
New research from the University of Reading argues that women leaders have to be language experts to survive the rigours of the boardroom.
Women learn to censor their language to be accepted by their male colleagues but the effort for some could be too much, and is part of the reason why women remain seriously under-represented in UK boardrooms.
Yours truly has been watching telly again! (I hope no-one will get the idea that the couch potato might be a significant source of starch.)
This time, on our local BBC news service, we hear how researchers at the University of Portsmouth
Institute of Biomedical and Biomolecular Science are cooperating with their
Institute of Marine Sciences to harness the
Gribble.
In a
Times News Review interview, Marcus du Sautoy, our new Oxford University Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, says:
I became a mathematician and not a scientist because science often goes wrong .... You do an experiment 100 times and you get the same result. You do it for the 101st time and something different happens. No one would be my lab partner at school because all my experiments went wrong. Maybe I’m a bad choice for this job.
I have watched two so far of a BBC2 TV series
The City Uncovered with Evan Davis, of which the three parts are:
- Banks and How to Break Them: Evan returns to first principles, and explains exactly how a bank is supposed to work. (R)
- Tricks with Risk: In the second of his series of documentaries on modern finance, Evan Davis heads into the world of the City's risk professionals – the derivatives whizzkids, and hedge fund managers.
- When Markets Go Mad: Evan Davis looks at the roots of the current crisis.
Not So Elementary (the Cosmos, That Is)
Carbon — to capture or not to capture
