Education Research Academia

will be doing a lot of research into Islamic banking and distance learning

Currently Browsing: http://islamic-finance.net/journal.html

Rhinotillexomania (Nose-Picking) in an Adolescent Sample – http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/aug/19/research.highereducation

Profile: Marcus du Sautoy, Oxford's new professor of the public understanding of science: http://tinyurl.com/5673mz

Topical for me – Baby talk: The roots of the early vocabulary in infants' learning from speech – http://tinyurl.com/5wuyfa

I really like this idea – Galaxy Zoo: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7894071.stm

Ray Kurzweil's 'Singularity University' backed by Nasa & Google will offer courses in ai, nanotech and biotech – http://tinyurl.com/cbged2

Some children start school knowing 6,000 words, others just 500 – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8013859.stm

First day of term at Nottingham Academy – the largest school in Europe – http://bit.ly/4CPAul

Research shows parents use deception to influence their children – http://bit.ly/1OIonw

Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture – http://bit.ly/4EzFtI

Primary school league tables: City of Bristol Sats results 2009 – http://bit.ly/4GUYDy

According to this paper: "those who hold conspiracy theories typically suffer from a crippled epistemology" – http://bit.ly/84fU5w

Academics fight rise of creationism at universities –http://bit.ly/cdjWhE

Climate change emails between scientists reveal flaws in peer review – http://bit.ly/9QV56Q

New research shows that people with power feel just fine when lying – http://bit.ly/cFLuNg

Texas schools board rewrites US history with lessons promoting God and guns. http://bit.ly/bfK9ag

Texas schools to get controversial syllabus http://bit.ly/cbPoqH

Brilliant – Football Research – Finance, Economics and the FIFA World Cup – http://bit.ly/cfBz0U

Listen live – BBC Radio 4 FM "Now: The Reith Lectures 2010: Surviving the Century" http://bit.ly/aubfXu

Bristol Uni Professor says Quantum time machine 'allows paradox-free time travel' http://bit.ly/bcKFOB

Peer review highly sensitive to poor refereeing, claim researchers – http://bit.ly/dp55Fu

@SSRN In recent years, there has been concern expressed about the under-representation of women in academic philosophy http://bit.ly/9MOaEW

How (not) to communicate new scientific information: a memoir of the famous brindley lecture http://bit.ly/dcZd2r

I used to work on New Journal of Physics: Invisibility cloak closer with flexible 'metamaterial' http://bbc.in/coXDZf

Selection Models and the File Drawer Problem – http://bit.ly/98LHj4

RT @SimoleonSense @SSRN – Scholarly Research and What We Don't Know We Don't Know http://bit.ly/cWcjmA

Student protest: how the Harry Potter generation turned into a band of rebels – http://bit.ly/f72fzi

The economic case for open access in academic publishing – http://bit.ly/gSktE4

A Reliability-Generalization Study of Journal Peer Reviews – http://bit.ly/h2sMw6

Times Higher Education – Research intelligence – Rip it up and start again – http://bit.ly/ez6mst

Small children are capable of engaging in issues concerning sustainable development – http://bit.ly/fLyGsv

Cliodynamics: The Journal of Theoretical and Mathematical History. Hmmm. Sounds a bit like psychohistory in Asimov. http://bit.ly/eK0bQ4

Continued confusion about how freedom-of-information legislation should be applied to scientific research – http://bit.ly/fcZI01

Brilliant – The Journal of Universal Rejection http://bit.ly/gJoDk8

In the the UK Government's version of a 'green investment bank', testing each word is an education in sophistry http://bit.ly/foNKc4

RT @BenGoldacre – How to read a paper http://bit.ly/gVBbzI

BBC iPlayer – Posh and Posher: Why Public School Boys Run Britain – http://bbc.in/e8kKQo

According to this research women are more attracted to men whose feelings are unclear – http://bit.ly/hT24xO

RT @TylerCowen – "The Silence of the Lambdas" and other academic papers based on Movie Titles http://bit.ly/hh72Ya

WikiLeaks reveals degree of Durham University's involvement in Iran – http://bit.ly/hBi7pW

RT @SimoleonSense: Is there "a growing academic obsession with soundbites and 'impact'"? http://bit.ly/huSvaZ

Trying new things for 30 days: Matt Cutt's TED2011 presentation – http://bit.ly/gWBouo

What Made This University Scientist Snap? http://bit.ly/eKERiC

The rich buying places at university? They already do http://bit.ly/kQkDND

British academics launch private university in London http://bbc.in/mig8HY

Financial Practitioners and Academics Take Note! The new MoneyScience website is live! http://bit.ly/1h5IiX – Please Retweet!

Massive botnet 'indestructible,' say researchers – http://bit.ly/rlGXSd

A History of Behavioural Finance in Published Research: 1944 – 1988 – http://bit.ly/qVlDAc

Will Open Data Solve Peer Review Concerns? – http://bit.ly/q8Df7W

50 Renowned Academics Speaking About God‏ – http://bit.ly/pGw2AR

Google and Microsoft to offer free tools for researchers to analyse citation stats, visualize networks & track research http://bit.ly/n7r4z2

What's it like doing a physics PGCE course? http://bit.ly/poH7Sn

MIT researchers are printing solar cells on sheets of paper – http://t.co/KX4Cj53

Niels Bohr Institute researchers have succeeded in maintaining quantum entanglement for up to an hour http://t.co/IiSpgWr

@GeorgeMonbiot doesn't have anything nice to say about #AcademicPublishing – http://t.co/mU63266 #

And while I'm on the topic: The Future of #AcademicPublishing at the How Power Corrupts symposium – http://t.co/zrvwDT6

Video – Cornell’s Creative Machines Lab points two chatbots, Cleverbots, at each other and let them talk – http://t.co/F3ktj66

Wolfgang Wagner's Resignation Letter from the Journal 'Remote Sensing' – http://t.co/WqDAwnI

Princeton will prevent researchers from giving the copyright of scholarly articles to journal publishers http://t.co/I3eBDRDX

Lack of detail on clock synchronization in FTL Neutrino paper may explain paucity of methodological critiques so far http://t.co/Oi6Fz2Bj

Sort of hopeful, if true: Researchers examine impact of 'green politics' on recent national elections – http://t.co/cd6jnabu

One for you I think: @bengoldacre – Concern over conflicts of interest levels among expert panels http://t.co/zfpxqJ3G

RT @bengoldacre: All time favourite abstract so far, via @gingerly_onward http://t.co/mtzHs4G1

Research – The Network of Global Corporate Control. http://t.co/Pd30H2Og

RT @proffriedman – Apologies, Their Use and Meaning: A Course Module http://t.co/5TzO9UCS @SSRN

Freedom, Anarchy and Conformism in Academic Research http://t.co/sy2wMPvW

In praise of nerd kids – http://t.co/16lbeXBV

"It’s a modern conceit that we are the most sophisticated people who ever lived." Try, Eudoxus of Cnidos http://t.co/CwKwxp9y

Science journal Nature is being sued for Libel by a former editor of the journal Chaos, Solitons & Fractals http://t.co/107JRqWW

Princeton University's annual Art of Science photo competition – http://t.co/dlDuLFlM

Academi, the private security company formally known as Xe, formally known as Blackwater http://t.co/NqP198ip

The Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets – Supplementary Materials, Research and Reviews http://t.co/HgCCyxPk #hft

"Humming in academia": A partial interdisciplinary overview of some of the recent literature http://t.co/vqXRpmJD

Free schools that teach 'intelligent design' as science will lose funding http://t.co/yIpKz00S

Have Academic publishers have become the enemies of science? The US Research Works Act – http://t.co/lU5cni0j

It's been a bit of a theme this week. Discontent with academic publishing is fostering disruptive solutions. http://t.co/JcjD2trz

On the Question of Remuneration: "To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee" (1865) http://t.co/XhIytAzW

Via @SimoleonSense: Research: "Very Happy People" (2002) "Being very happy does not seem to be a malfunction…" http://t.co/R0OcA9NR

Via @ComDig – I'm not sure I quite 'get' this research: War Games: Simulating Collins’ Theory of Battle Victory – http://t.co/qgOnUisA