Reinterpretation of Data

Posted on 19/03/2020 by Jon Butterworth

Good data can be interpreted many ways. (So can bad data of course, but that’s boring.)

This is not a comment on any recent epidemiology modelling, though I suppose there may be some issues in common. Here in my little loft-space, with my various teleconference options now augmented by “Teams”, I am still carrying on with particle physics, while my daughter has online lessons downstairs and my son frets about cancelled A levels. And my wife is still at school teaching.

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But yes, particle physics, if you fancy a break.

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The science stories that shaped 2019

Posted on 23/12/2019 by Jon Butterworth

In the Observer, with a contribution from me.

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Book Shambles

Posted on 07/12/2019 by Jon Butterworth

jonb_shambles_s7-150x150I did a Book Shambles with Robin Ince and Josie Long, which you can hear here. Hear hear.

Ostensibly we were discussing “A Map of the Invisible”, though it starts with me denying the allotment allegation, and pretty much shambles on from there to cover quite a lot of ground…

 

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A review of Atom Land from Kansas

Posted on 23/11/2019 by Jon Butterworth

Thanks to Newton Public Library and Steve Richards for this.

 

 

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