Qulog

I’m off for a holiday -yay!- and I don’t feel like cleaning up spam from under a palm tree… or after I get back. So I’ve turned comments off, using this plugin.

Especially those comments just saying: “nice websight!” (sic) or “thank you for sharing this, I’m sure to return”, without even bothering to sign with a url.
Not dumping them means they’ll come back again, and again, and again, and the next time *with* their url’s promising whatever drug or money-saving or money-making scheme.
But it’s a […]

Bas Braams sent me an email about my ‘much too kind’ post on the PISA tests on scientific literacy. He has written these three commentaries on some of the questions and answers provided by PISA, and - to put it mildly ;-) - he’s not thrilled by them. The questions are not always clear, […]