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Demons of self-expression recklessly discard restraint
Via the wonderful Viv McWaters, this post – How to Ask a Question – reaches me. …. After they finished and the moderator opened the floor for questions, the usual thing happened. The questioners by and large had no questions. … Continue reading
What, never? No, never… well, hardly ever
do I go to see Gilbert and Sullivan productions. And good as tonight’s am-dram performance of “HMS Pinafore” was, I still left dredging from my memory Tom Lehrer’s assessment – “you can always rely on Gilbert and Sullivan for a … Continue reading
Leading us all astray?
Thanks to the readers who have added very useful comments and links below my “How little we learn” post. There’s more to come (including some recently published books on the topic), but this cartoon below from xkcd was in my … Continue reading
Posted in competence, humour
Tagged Cognitive Humility, Godwin's Law, mistakes, Tom Lehrer, Werner Von Braun, xkcd
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Scientist discovers new element – Administratium
from here. The heaviest element known to science was recently discovered by University physicists. The element, tentatively named Administratium (AD), has no protons or electrons, which means that its atomic number is 0. However, it does have 1 neutron, 125 … Continue reading
Tom Lehrer as one of ten great figures of past century
In 1999, Martin Gilbert, the biographer of Winston Churchill and famous chronicler of the 20th century, named Lehrer as one of the 10 great figures of the previous 100 years. “Lehrer was able to express and to expose, in humorous … Continue reading
Japanese Nuclear Emergency – babies as canaries in the coalmine?
OK, so this is difficult, because there’s always the accusation that you are being “emotive” when you talk about children’s health. But then you read such utter bollocks from clueless journalists who think that attack is the best form of … Continue reading
Posted in apocalypse, fear
Tagged fukushima, hyperbole, hyperbole by anti-nuclear folks, Japanese Nuclear Emergency, Tom Lehrer
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Humour: Accountability and being bullet proof…
I’ve just read “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” by Patrick Lencioni. It’s borrow-not-buy, but there are certainly some good points well made. On accountability – “I’m talking about that moment when you know you have to call one of … Continue reading
Posted in activism, competence, humour
Tagged accountability, movement-building, nepotism, social movements, Tom Lehrer
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