Monthly archives: October 2016

A university academic — As we watch events unfolding at our universities, on the fringes of the FeesMustFall movement, we see a near total lack of understanding of what universities are all about and how they work. A lot is written in the press, and talked about on TV and radio, about the danger […]

The hollowing of our universities through lack of government leadership ...

12 Oct, 2016 in Education by Derek Keats

Wrymouth — Ghost fish seemed an appropriate name the first time I saw one, For a fleeting second, in the light of my diving lamp; a whitish spotted head protruding from the mud disappeared as it swallowed up by the sea floor itself. Closer inspection revealed a 10 cm diameter hole in […]

The wrymouth a ghost of a fish

6 Oct, 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

earth — I have citizenship in two countries, something that sometimes is hard for people to understand. This is particularly true for people who have not travelled, or lived in another country, or who have not thought about what countries actually are in reality. A few days ago, someone asked me which […]

The fiction of countries

1 Oct, 2016 in Critical thinking / Thought for the day by Derek Keats