by Peter | Jun 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
BBC News 26/6/2025, Helen Briggs The world’s oldest boomerang is older than previously thought, casting new light on the ingenuity of humans living at the time. The tool, which was found in a cave in Poland in 1985, is now thought to be 40,000 years old....
by Peter | Apr 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
This is when I began to understand neurodiversity, because I couldn’t tell my left from my right. [BBC Sounds R4 April 3rd 2025 This Cultural Life – Abi Morgan about 3’20” into interview] Once upon a time the simple s a tatement of not being able to...
by Peter | Feb 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
The story about right and left structures extends to the origins of life on Earth. To quote from a recent article in Nature 29 January 2025 ature Fragments collected from the asteroid Bennu contain the building blocks for life — all five nucleobases that form...
by Peter | Jan 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
As long ago as 1971 Lourie & Lourie summarised child-help [agencies]: “as being a confused set of fragmented services…We parcel children out to institutions on the basis of social, legal, and sometimes diagnostic labels that neither describe the child nor...
by Peter | Jan 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
The body and mind are a single system, yet most therapists treat them as separate entities with obvious treament limitations. A commentary on BBC Radio 4’s Reith Lecture No. 4. “Can we change Violent Minds?” by forensic psychiatrist, Dr Gwen Adshead, But first...
by Peter | Nov 12, 2024 | education, Uncategorized
Coleridge and Wordsworth were more than just poets: they were deeply concerned about children’s education. A.S. Byatt’s Unruly Times Pub Vintage 1977 gives a vivid account of an experiment on the teaching of ‘letters’ over nealy two hundred...
