This morning on Pat Kenny’s radio programme there was a clinical psychologist and a homeopath discussing whether homeopathy had any validity.
First of all, it always galls me that the media, in the interest of ‘balance’ has a scientist and a quack on opposite sides of a debate.  They are not equivalent in any way.  One […]

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I have written before about the parlous state of mathematics achievements amoung our students in Ireland.  There is a pressing need to improve maths standards and there seems to be very little consensus on how to achieve improvements.  We have had suggestions of increasing the reward for studying maths at the highest levels - by […]

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Yesterday I was at a meeting where some of the results of an independent study of our research outcomes was presented.
I was told I couldn’t see all the results, but nobody told me I couldn’t talk about the results that I did see.
The study was carried out by a Dutch company who specialise in this […]

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Ferdinand von Prondzynski has been writing about Bat O’Keefe’s allegation that some university academics only work 4 hours per week, or at least teach only four hours per week.
It is not clear why this figure came out from Bat O’Keeffe’s mouth, but it smacks of a ’softening up’ of the third level sector in an effort to […]

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You might want to read this today about Dr. Andrew Wakefield, a scientist who caused much of the controversy about the MMR vaccine and his claim of a link with Autism.
The problem with this is that it comes 12 years after his initial publication (13 authors on the publication, the journal was the Lancet and […]

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So Apple are going to release a new computer today.  It will be called the iSlate or the iTablet or something like that apparently (just google some techie blog to get some more information on that.
The Apple share price has doubled this year, which is amazing given the economy and how the recent recession has […]

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So, today there is a work to rule on with the public service unions.  This is indeed a controversial issue and one where there is no right side and no wrong side.
Naturally, as a public service worker, I have a particular interest in this dispute, though I am not on a work to rule, whatever […]

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Well, so much has happened since I last blogged. Where to start?The public service have taken a pay cut and there is an embargo on hiring and promotions for the past while.  I do understand how this has come about - we spend something North of 50,000,000,000 Euro per year and we only take in […]

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Tá áthas orainn in iúl duit go bhfuil tú bhuaigh an tsuim
de 485,000.00 GBP ó Yahoo! MSN (Windows Live) Gradaim
chlár.
ÍOC duais AGUS ÉILEAMH
Beidh Buaiteoirí a íoc i gcomhréir le aige / aici Lonnaíochta
Ionad. Ní mór Yahoo Gradam Duais ní a éileamh déanaí ná 15
lá ó dháta an fógra a Dear. Aon duais ní éileofar
Beidh laistigh […]

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That table in the TV3 filming room is getting a looooooad of business.  It is the same table in all TV programmes, just that they project a different front on it for the different programmes.

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