Since I love paradoxes so much, I love the idea that, as the UK and US trend ever more egalitarian in their approaches to education, they see ever greater gaps between low and high and achievers. Meanwhile, Finland has a … Continue reading →

The sweet spot for Alan Kay’s glorious Squeak is kids who find joy in creating and exploring. Continue reading →

Richard Dawkins doing what he does best – talking about science – to Lawrence Krauss at Stanford. It’s in six parts. You can see the rest here.

In which Paul Graham discovers that the essays they teach you to write in school are completely unlike the essays you might want to write in real life. Essayer is the French verb meaning “to try” (the cousin of our … Continue reading →

Now this would make a cool project for a science fair: He was nominated for a Nobel Prize. I don’t care about any of this. Shafik won my heart by publishing a paper in European Urology in which he investigated … Continue reading →

I Stumbled Upon a cool site for kids at the BBC. They have a whole bunch of games but I am playing this one: Questionaut Key Stage 2. It’s a bit like the Python Challenge for little kids. I am … Continue reading →

[Here’s a post that I started about 2 years ago and probably will never finish – which is a shame because it would’ve been a good one….] I always look forward to the Science Fair because … …. rant about … Continue reading →

Dylan had to make a castle for school and made Leeds Castle which is just up the road from where my sister lives. If you look closely, you can see the Frenchman in the tower about to fetchez la vache … Continue reading →

A new book, The Age of American Unreason, revives the one about society getting stupider. A popular video on YouTube shows Kellie Pickler, the adorable platinum blonde from “American Idol,” appearing on the Fox game show “Are You Smarter Than … Continue reading →