February 2005
The new Chief Inquisitor on campus
by mikepower
From ethics committees to ‘learning outcomes’, the threat to academic freedom comes from within the university as much as from without. By Frank Ferudi
January 2005
Squashed Philosophers- Condensed Plato Aristotle Augustine Descartes Hume Marx Freud Copernicus Hobbes Sartre Ayer Sade Wittgenstein Einstein
by mikepower & 17 others
The books which defined the way The West thinks now Condensed and abridged to keep the substance, the style and the quotes, but ditching all that irritating verbiage.
Philip Pullman: Common sense has much to learn from moonshine
by mikepower
If we want children to write well, giving them formal instruction in grammar turns out not to be any use; getting them actually writing seems to help a great deal more. There was no evidence at all that the teaching of grammar had any beneficial effect on
John Cartan - 20 Strange and Wonderful Books
by mikepower
Here, then, are twenty strange and wonderful books from my library. Even if you have no curiosity about my inner life, you will profit by coming to know any one of these books.
Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism
by mikepower & 3 others
As many of you know I'm going to work hard on a project to inspire, enable and create what many have been calling a new kind of journalism.
November 2004
43 Folders: Hack your way out of writers block
by mikepower & 1 other
Stuck for words? Lots of ways to get unstuck and start the blogging juices running again
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