“There’s no such thing as a free market”: Ha-Joon Chang’s 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism www.thersa.org/discover/videos/event-videos/2010/0… #fb
23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism
The title describes the book: 23 things, some counterintuitive, some perhaps contentious, they you may not have realised about the economic system that the world runs on. The presentation and organisation of this book is inspired partly by Dr Seuss, … Continue reading
The Well of Loneliness — Radclyffe Hall
This story is about a tomboyish girl called Stephen. It traces her life from her birth and upbringing in a wealthy and genteel English family in the late 1800s, through the first world war and on to a successful career. … Continue reading
Why Don’t Students Like School? — Daniel Willingham
The reason children don’t like going to school is that it interrupts their education. — Jay Griffith at the RSA That quote could serve as a summary of this book. It’s a guide for teachers to make their classroom time … Continue reading
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper — John Allen Paulos
A mathematician reads the newspaper and comments on it from a mathematics-oriented point of view. That’s what this book is, and it’s a fun and interesting read thanks to Paulos’s clear writing and understated humour. I have a few of … Continue reading
I have discovered a truly remarkable…
I have discovered a truly remarkable proof of this theorem which this tweet is too small to contain.
Apple’s Photos app for Mac OS is such a…
Apple’s Photos app for Mac OS is such a frustrating step backwards compared to iPhoto. So rudimentary. So sluggish. Gah!
Top up your onions Sydney with lovely…
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Surveys: most dangerous research tool….
Surveys: most dangerous research tool. Combine the worst of qualitative and quantitative approaches — Erika Hall medium.com/research-things/on-surveys-5a73dda5e9a0