23 October 2014
IQ tests and ‘near-genius’
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copy of a letter to an academic People were always implying that I believed things about my IQ, and that this influenced me in wanting to ...
21 October 2014
Crisis at the convent
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The motto of the Ursuline convent schools I want to write about my interview with my father, after he had been summoned to see the Rever...
14 October 2014
Wasted talent
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Writing about Christine Fulcher has reminded me of how difficult it is, and always has been, to say anything about our position. In Christ...
08 October 2014
Books are better than blogs
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text of a letter to an academic I do not think that my blog is a good way of attracting potential associates. We need to publish and distr...
06 October 2014
Modern students
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Recently we have been making contact with various undergraduates. The impression most of them give is that they are determined to make thing...
28 September 2014
The fear of breakthroughs
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text of a letter to an academic I remember that you once asked me why schools, even the Ursuline convent school, wanted me to do maths in ...
25 September 2014
Innate ability, and its enemies
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The belief system associated with the egalitarian ideology has been increasing in influence for a long time, and is now overwhelmingly domi...
22 September 2014
Professor Otto Frisch and psychokinesis
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Of course I knew when I was thrown out, to try to do research in the wilderness, that there was no sympathy with my position or predicament....
21 September 2014
A friend in need
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Text of a recent letter to a potential associate, whom I had known as a child, and with whom I had corresponded some months ago. Dear ... ...
14 September 2014
Serviam
(‘I will serve’)
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Further to the previous post , the following is another extract from The Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett. This episode occurs soon...
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