Brief Round-Up

Lots of interesting stuff around at the moment...

• Over at Mike Flynn's blog, a very nice post which ties together bats, birds, linguistic evolution, the philosophy of chemistry and dinosaurs.
• Over at Siris, Brandon Watson has an interesting post about edutainment. Given the current trend for "gamification" of educational resources in HE and the fact that research is fairly consistent in, at least, casting doubt on the fact that students always actually recognise when they have learnt something, this is something that should concern most educators.
• At The Renaissance Mathematicus, Thony Christie looks at Galileo's Theory of Tides and draws lessons for today's scientists.