The hollowing of our universities through lack of government leadership ...As we watch events unfolding at our universities, on the fringes of the FeesMustFall movement, we see a […] 12th October 2016 in Education by Derek Keats
The wrymouth a ghost of a fishGhost fish seemed an appropriate name the first time I saw one, For a fleeting second, in the […] 6th October 2016 in Diving, underwater and intertidal / The natural world tagged diving / fish / ghostfish / ichthyology / muddy bottom / Newfoundland / research opportunity / strange creatures / Terra Nova National Park / wrymouth by Derek Keats
The fiction of countriesI have citizenship in two countries, something that sometimes is hard for people to understand. This is particularly […] 1st October 2016 in Critical thinking / Thought for the day by Derek Keats
Lunar beauty of the summer seasThis article was published in Diver magazine in 1990. In the sky there is only one moon, but […] 18th August 2016 in Diving, underwater and intertidal / The natural world tagged diving / moon jelly / nature / underwater by Derek Keats
Ndumo: birds of prey with adaptations to the forestWe took a five days in the second week of August 2016 to visit Ndumo Nature Reserve in […] 14th August 2016 in Birds and bird photography by Derek Keats
Rekindling my blog – nature, technology, critical thinkingI have not really kept up with posting to my blog, and it is costing me to maintain […] 14th August 2016 in Uncategorised tagged blog / critical thinking / nature / technology by Derek Keats
My Ubuntu 16.04 post install “script”This is the code I ran after installing Ubuntu 16.04 on my new laptop. I recommend just copying […] 9th July 2016 in Ubuntu by Derek Keats
That is not education, and it is not disruptionPeople talk about disruption in university education as though it has already happened. The learning of theory is […] 8th July 2016 in Education tagged education / meme by Derek Keats
How to make circular arrows in LibreOffice DrawThere are not a lot of videos on working with shapes in Libreoffice, and it took me a […] 4th July 2016 in Free and open source software / LibreOffice tagged diagrams / Draw / LibreOffice / vector graphics by Derek Keats
What would universities be like if they were designed for ...I was born in a small town at the head of Bonavista Bay on the island of Newfoundland, […] 15th June 2016 in Education tagged abundance / scarcity by Derek Keats
Bird photography tips – what you doA few people have asked me how to take pictures of birds, and I often get asked by […] 12th June 2016 in Birds and bird photography / Nature photography tagged photography tips by Derek Keats
The next big hack – university educationUniversities don’t like being considered businesses, but they are, like it or not. Even the public ones. And […] 11th June 2016 in Business / Education tagged billionaire / disruption / higher education / university by Derek Keats
Want to be a billionaire? Hack how we feed ourselvesI have been thinking of the business opportunities inherent in some of the biggest challenges that humanity faces […] 8th June 2016 in Business tagged entrepreneurship / grand challenge / moonshot by Derek Keats
No more secret science as Europe calls for ‘immediate’ open ...Today I read a Science article entitled “In dramatic statement, European leaders call for ‘immediate’ open access to […] 30th May 2016 in All things free and open tagged open access by Derek Keats
A world without bullshit would be more interestingI always thought the organised untruths were the worst that humanity had, things like religion, race, ethnicity, healthfoods, […] 28th May 2016 in Critical thinking tagged philosophy by Derek Keats
Monotheists and atheists are almost in complete agreement 14th May 2016 in Atheism and religion tagged meme / religion by Derek Keats