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Monthly Archives: April 2012
The Ombudsman for Children’s investigation into a complaint about admissions’ policies
It emerged today that the office of the Ombudsman for Children has investigated a complaint against a secondary school by a girl and her mother that she (the girl) had been unfairly treated because she was pregnant and subsequently a … Continue reading
Posted in Education, topical stuff
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Monkey business: Primate Evidence on the Late Health Effects of Early Life Adversity
The effects of early life adversity in humans has got a lot of attention recently from a variety of academic disciplines. An obvious problem is establishing causality given that it would be unethical to experimentally vary those conditions. The paper … Continue reading
Posted in Health, research
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Co-operation or competition in species helps determine handedness
The causes of left-handedness are not widely understood. It is generally accepted that there is a significant genetic component although the details have yet to be worked out. My recent paper provides evidence that breastfeeding also plays a role. And … Continue reading
Does financial aid help low income students go to university? Evidence for Italy
It is virtually a universal finding that young people from low income backgrounds are less likely to progress to higher education. It might seem therefore that low income is holding them back and the financial aid will therefore help. But … Continue reading
How your doctor’s BMI affects his judgement
The immortal phrase “Well he would say that, wouldn’t he?” is often invoked when someone’s response is entirely predictable perhaps because they have a vested interest in giving a particular answer or a prone to a particular bias- though actually … Continue reading
Numberphile: fun videos about your favourite numbers
if you like numbers Numberphile is a cool site with fun videos about some great numbers, like 666 , the square root of 2 and why 7 is a happy number. You can also follow it on the Twitter machine … Continue reading
Posted in Maths, physics, nerdy stuff
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Shock as mathematics paper retracted because it has no scientific content
There is a blog called Retraction Watch dedicated to papers that are retracted from academic journals usually because the authors did something stupid or naughty (like cheat). Recently they highlighted a paper that has been retracted from the Elsevier Journal … Continue reading
Happy Birthday blog
Here is another sequence 1, 339, 239, 20010 The blog is one year old, there have been 339 posts, 239 comments and 20,010 views.
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Everything you wanted to know about number sequences but were afraid to ask
A common problem that occurs in intelligence tests is to be given a list of numbers and be asked to identify the next in the sequence. Sometimes its fairly obvious, 1,4,9,16… are the squares of the integers. Sometimes it is … Continue reading
Posted in Maths, physics, nerdy stuff
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Handedness and earnings : the evidence
The paper I blogged about yesterday was a depressing one for left-handers but here is the good news: they get paid more, ceteris paribus. If they are male, that is. For females, its the other way around. As the paper … Continue reading
Posted in Brain/Psychology
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