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Jul 14

The Importance of Talking to strangers

I have, on a couple of occasions recently found myself on a train or in a coffee shop minding my own business when a stranger comes over and strikes up a conversation. I don’t know what it is about my face or whatever but this never ends up how every…

Social

4 min read


Jun 2

The Modern Academy Works Too Hard For Genuine Progress to be Possible

Around the time of the discovery of the Higgs Boson, Peter Higgs, its namesake admitted that the academics of his generation would not be productive enough to get a job in a modern University as junior academics. The modern academic is not the tweed jacket wearing, pipe smoking thinker of…

Science

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The Modern Academy Works Too Hard For Genuine Progress to be Possible
The Modern Academy Works Too Hard For Genuine Progress to be Possible

Apr 5

Examinations and the fiction of Equal Opportunity

Examinations provide a level playing field. That is why they exist. But if the game is flawed and the dice is biased, what good is the gradient of the table? In the 7th century, the Sui dynasty realised that it was better to select officials on the basis of merit…

Education

12 min read

Examinations and the fiction of Equal Opportunity
Examinations and the fiction of Equal Opportunity
Alexander Pasha

Alexander Pasha

I write things sometimes, mostly about the relationship between science and society, but sometimes about other things too.

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