Qulog

The (quantum) physics blog Uncertain Principles points to a lengthy discussion at Crooked Timber on playing a Prisoner’s Dilemma game using entangled photons.
The game is as follows: two people are seperated from each other, they cannot communicate. Both have to answer a question, and depending on the combination of their answers, they are rewarded or […]

De column van Anil Ramdas van gisteren heet Het gaat om het oponthoud. Hij beschrijft hoe hij als kind als een razende boeken las, zonder zich te ’storen’ aan natuur- of karakterbeschrijvingen, enkel om te weten “hoe het afliep” . De rest is enkel oponthoud. Maar:
Als je volwassen bent, gaat het ineens juist om het […]

Which File Extension are You?

Via Martin Terre Blanche, and others: Webnote.
It’s something like Post-It meets Wiki: coloured notes to place and re-place, but you can change their size, colour and add or remove texts, pictures, links…
May be nice for something like collecting ideas, or notes on what you learned at a certain meeting.

In FQS, a multilingual open access journal on qualitative research in social sciences, Gary Shank writes It’s Logic in Practice, My Dear Watson: An Imaginary Memoir from Beyond the Grave, a Sherlock-Holmes-style account on the nature of qualitative research.

While looking for something else, I ran into this nice quote from Popper:
Eine Theorie verstehen wir, wenn wir das Problem verstehen, zu dessen Lösung sie entworfen wurde, und verstehen, inwiefern sie das Problem besser oder auch slechter löst als ihre Konkurrenten.
It said (Popper, 1967), but at the end of the article, there was no […]

Question: Why is some SpamBot spamming my old site with a quote of Edmund Burke? A dozen comments saying “I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say, that in […]

One of the things I liked at the summer school was this ‘we are not alone’-feeling. Of course, I know that, because I’m lucky enough to work in a fairly big science education centre, with about ten other PhD students around. But still it’s comforting to know there other people out there doing similar things […]

Here’s the result of my online journal browsing of today: links to a number of articles (.pdf)
Two IJSE-articles:
Joke van Aalsvoort on logical postivism and chemistry’s lack of relevance in secondary education
Van Zele et al. on the use of concept maps in assessing students’ understanding of for instance atoms.
From Science & Education:
Peter Davson-Galle on Philosophy of […]