Mind & brain.
ResearchED 2013 Is GO. If you build it, they will come. So I’m running a conference this September....
Beginnings are often noisy: babies delivered in an eruption of clamour and viscera; shuttle launches where a dot of metal balances on a skyscraper of exploding fire and prayers. This firework went off so quickly I didn't even hear it until my house was on fire. Last week: I'm invited to the Teach First launch of Ben Goldacres's 'Building evidence into education' at Bethnal Green Academy. As usual he's fired up and switched on about Bad Science; eloquent, spiky and charging into education. Research in education is one of my hobby horses- mainly because while some of it is excellent (as some of anything usually is) a lot of it is poorly constructed, riddled with bias, and empty of utility.
Science research: three problems that point to a communications crisis. Has the communication of scientific research reached a crisis point?
Photograph: Alamy Traditional scientific communication directly threatens the quality of scientific research. Today's system is unreliable – or worse. Making Neuroscience Fun. Brain and reasoning in physics. Mindfulness%20and%20brain%20paper. The Development of Attitudes and Emotions Related to Mathematics. Dr Paul Howard Jones - What is the Internet Doing to our Brains? Neuroeducational.net.