Starting again.

It’s been a while since I started the blog.  Since I began much has changed.  A couple of year ago I began with the idea that I would comment on science stories published in the news.  However, since then I’ve changed my job and that has given me a different perspective on things.

Nowadays, I’m much more interested in the education side of things.  Perhaps because, having left the classroom, I now have time to think.  Time you don’t have when you’re working in the classroom. 

And then there’s twitter.  A flood of ideas, diatribes and social chat.   

So now I’m thinking that a blog would be a good place to record my thoughts about what I’m reading and pondering.  Probably still science linked, but I suspect that education will creep in quite often.

I hope we enjoy the ride.

And so it begins.

A while back, a radio presenter was reading out a newspaper article about a piece of reasearch. In it the journalist had written "Scientists have said..." and the dj asked "Who are these scientists?"

A very good question.

So often we get snippets of research, simplified to insignificance, fed down to us from on high, with the comment 'Scientists have said' - as if that makes it unquestionable.

In this blog, I hope to write about research that may make it to the newspapers, and possibly some that doesn't.

I will also use it as a repository for more general thoughts on education, science, and potentially, life in general.