Author Archives: Chris Rowan

Catching up

I’m back, tired and a little sun-scorched, from my trip to Northern Cape (northwest South Africa). Since my brain is still feeling quite fried after the 800 km drive back to Johannesburg yesterday, all I’m really doing today is catching … Continue reading

Categories: links

In the field

I’ve been asked to go and help out with some fieldwork in Northern Cape. It was on quite short notice, and I was feeling a little bit flu-ridden over the weekend, so this blog will probably be quiet for the … Continue reading

Categories: bloggery

Pay Attention!

I have to make a troubling admission: when it comes to gender issues in academia, my internal monologue has often been rather silent. What is more, until relatively recently, I didn’t see this as a problem: given that a person’s … Continue reading

Categories: academic life

South African creationists: out, proud and part of the teaching staff

A few weeks ago, I was wondering about the attitudes to the teaching of evolution here in South Africa – it’s now in the curriculum, but in a form which sounds disturbingly familiar to those of us who have encountered … Continue reading

Categories: antiscience

Because I really need to spend more time typing random things into Google

David Ng at the World’s Fair has come up with a new game for net-enabled procrastinators everywhere: the “I rank number one on google” meme: I’d like to suggest a meme, where the premise is that you will attempt to … Continue reading

Categories: bloggery