Terry’s Blog

According to Richard and Judy psychologists and statisticians have identified the 23rd January as the most depressing day of the year (in the UK at least). Illness, absenteeism, depression, and such like are higher on this day each year than any other - the fun of Christmas is over but the debts are still with [...]

The broadest description of my vision is of an intellectual community based upon identity, belonging, shared values and based upon and infused by a research led learning culture (try to work in a notion of learning ecology here?). ‘Intellectual community’ includes UGs, PGs, academic staff (teaching and research) and support staff.
The big challenge: how to [...]

Jimmy Wales’ Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, a Nature investigation finds.
I found this interesting and follows some posts an ideas I wrote about before including a post on the idea that a variety of accredited versions of Wikipedia could be constructed by various interested organisations including [...]