Stuart Patience
Literacy and education; teacher training; building effective organisations. Norwich, UK - Jakarta, Indonesia| Driverless Crocodile
Literacy and education; teacher training; building effective organisations. Norwich, UK - Jakarta, Indonesia| Driverless Crocodile
Arendt wrote the prologue to The Human Condition not long after the successful launch of Sputnik raised the first realistic prospect of humanity taking its first steps off-planet, and in the shadow of threatening and perplexing developments in atomic and quantum physics (see her comments on the crisis of language in the sciences). It’s a… Read More »Hannah Arendt on science, language, politics and our future machine overlords The post Hannah Arendt on science, language, politics and our...| Driverless Crocodile
It would be no surprise to me if it came as no surprise to you that running a leaf blower for thirty minutes produces far less pollution than driving a Ford Raptor from Texas to Alaska. Or that an hour’s use of a leaf blower emits nowhere near as much carbon as driving a Toyota… Read More »Fact check: Comparing Leaf Blower Carbon Emissions with Pollution from Cars The post Fact check: Comparing Leaf Blower Carbon Emissions with Pollution from Cars appeared first on Driverless Crocodile.| Driverless Crocodile
Newbigin was a sharp but affectionate observer of Western culture, a highly educated insider with an extra layer of perspective that came from almost 40 years lived in India from 1936 to 1974. Soviet leaders regarded science simply as a necessary tool for the implementation of their social planning. The idea that pure science should… Read More »| Driverless Crocodile
