With news that Bill Gates has bought the rights from the BBC for some 1964 lectures given by Richard Feynman, in the discussions over at RichardDawkins.net a video clip was posted of Feynman explaining science through an analogy of observing a game of chess. Nature of Science – Feynman’s analogy of science and chess [...]
Well, now that the Formula 1 Grand Prix has started, it was wonderful to see the UK TV coverage return to the BBC with Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” and accompanied with some great computer graphics. I’m sorry ITV, but the BBC win this feature hands down! Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2009
Some progress, of sorts http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7956378.stm The MHRA has upheld the complaint about the wording used to advertise the medical efficacy of Prince Charles’s Dutchy Originals "Duchy Herbals Echina-Relief Tincture" and "Duchy Herbals Hyperi-Lift Tincture". Now, I’m no fan of the MHRA as they are not fully transparent and have washed their hands in dealing with [...]
Stumbled across this interview with Ben Goldacre in his badscience blog article. Ben provides a way of cutting swathes of nonsense one increasingly hears in the media these days. Of particular note, his quote at about 5 minutes 50 seconds regarding the BBC’s once respected “Horizon” science programmes as “Horizon going to nonsense” resonated with my [...]
Is the BBC article ”Are you going forward? Then stop now” pushing the envelope with blue-sky thinking requiring a user-centred paradigm shift? You decide! Actually, it’s quite a humorous article and is something that I identify with. However, I have to admit to being guilty to some extent and I give myself some form of self-justification as [...]
Well, just the other day I saw an episode of the BBC’s Horizon programme titled “How to make better decisions”. I nearly barfed! It wasn’t as bad as their “The Dark Secret of Hendrik Schön” episode but it certainly ranks as a very bad science programme. I don’t want to say too much about the corny equations [...]
Just came across an article at the BBC called Obesity ‘not individuals’ fault’. It references a UK government-backed study that, basically, claims that it is not an individual’s fault for being obese but rather that it was the fault of society, and that both society and government needed to be involved to reduce obesity. I [...]
