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Will Tattersdill wrote a new blog post: Education, Education, Education 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Slow-coach that I am, I only just came across the internet sensation which is Ken Robinson’s (first) TED talk. I have a few ‘issues’ with TED, but you can’t deny the talks are good – and despite the perhaps occasionally questionable humour, I think this one is worth watching. I think all of his [...]
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Will Tattersdill wrote a new blog post: A Curious Symmetry 1 month ago
Have you ever had the feeling that someone was stalking you, 120 years ago? Ladies and Gentlemen, Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911):
I had a vague knowledge of Galton when Natasha McEnroe at the Grant Museum, UCL threw me in his general direction following a [...]
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Will Tattersdill commented on the blog post Festival Season 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Paul,
Thanks for this. I hope I haven’t come across as being *too* elitist – I was actually trying to kind of make the opposite point, because I don’t believe that some of these ‘deeper’ issues you speak of *are* incommunicable, and I think the decision not to try (not that I’m suggesting there’s been a [...]
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Will Tattersdill wrote a new blog post: Festival Season 1 month, 3 weeks ago
I just returned from the Hay festival, where I took this picture. I challenge anybody to look at it and tell me that Book History doesn’t have some interesting things to say:
This is an honesty bookshop in a castle, and it’s sort of by [...]
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Will Tattersdill wrote a new blog post: Not a Real Post 2 months, 2 weeks ago
I haven’t posted on here for a little while – I’ve been saving all my top material for a bunch of conference papers I’m giving (that’s my excuse, anyway). But I couldn’t not share this with the world, even though everyone who reads this blog is likely to have seen it anyway.
I have absolute [...]
