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TheOtherDrX's Higher Education blog. Although not exclusively Higher Education…. Black Swans: When you disprove your own hypothesis that all Swans are white. November 17, 2016. I wrote a blogpost a while back on the White Swan hypothesis, where I challenge my research students to test the hypothesis that all swans are white, as in the UK and Europe, this is a generally accepted notion. Either … Continue reading →. Public engagement of science. March 3, 2015. Public engagement of science. February 9, 2015.
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Less is more… Job Applications | postphdperceptions
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Charlotte; scientist, sci-commer, sewer, baker and now: blogger. Less is more… Job Applications. January 14, 2015. Jobs Graduate jobs. The job market. On a daily basis about how tough it is out there. Ever the optimist. Once I’d handed in my thesis in September 2014, I began my job hunt adamant that it was a load of fuss and nonsense. How wrong I was. I am so sorry to break it to you. It’s true. It’s tough. 8216;Just be patient and keep going, you will get there in the end’,. Which has completely changed...
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Editing Wikipedia as a learning tool. | David's adventures in the classroom.
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David's adventures in the classroom. A place to share my teaching practice. Editing Wikipedia as a learning tool. I often set problem solving course work as part of my teaching. It puts the learning of the lectures into context and allows the students to apply the knowledge gained. It also has the benefit of demonstrating how they might use the core knowledge in the future. First point of call. In the last iterations the resulting answers submitted taken from Wikipedia have been at best misleading and wo...
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Black Swans: When you disprove your own hypothesis that all Swans are white. | TheOtherDrX's Higher Education blog
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TheOtherDrX's Higher Education blog. Although not exclusively Higher Education…. Debating evolution with an opponent of evolution. Let’s call it ‘public engagement of science’. Black Swans: When you disprove your own hypothesis that all Swans are white. November 17, 2016. I wrote a blogpost a while back on the White Swan hypothesis. Cancer cell lines grown in the lab are a poor proxy for cancer, but in many cases they are the best we have access to. The really important question was: What was happeni...
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“The Love Hormone” – Blogging for Dopamine
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The Geek Show Mixcloud. Psychology and Mental Health. 8220;The Love Hormone”. Intriguingly named research papers and here’s what I found. Oxytocin, also called the “love hormone”, “cuddle chemical”, or “moral molecule” is a protein hormone made in the brain. Its main and most widely accepted function is causing contractions during labour (feeling the romance yet? And is involved in facilitating lactation. It can be given intravenously to induce labour when a woman has difficulties during childbirth.
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Is knowledge worth testing any more? Is testing knowledge ‘Authentic’? | TheOtherDrX's Higher Education blog
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TheOtherDrX's Higher Education blog. Although not exclusively Higher Education…. Should we adopt more active learning at the expense of cutting the STEM curriculum? Debating evolution with an opponent of evolution. Let’s call it ‘public engagement of science’ →. Is knowledge worth testing any more? Is testing knowledge ‘Authentic’? February 9, 2015. Bypassing the Remembering and Understanding steps when answering exam questions using Google. Furthermore: Seth Godin in his TEDx talk on education said.
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Debating evolution with an opponent of evolution. Let’s call it ‘public engagement of science’ | TheOtherDrX's Higher Education blog
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TheOtherDrX's Higher Education blog. Although not exclusively Higher Education…. Is knowledge worth testing any more? Is testing knowledge ‘Authentic’? Black Swans: When you disprove your own hypothesis that all Swans are white. →. Debating evolution with an opponent of evolution. Let’s call it ‘public engagement of science’. March 3, 2015. Which I originally came across via this tweet from Dr Adam Rutherford:. The review of Dr Rutherford’s book ended with:. 8216; It should make interesting reading for a...
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