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Liz Wager

Liz Wager’s X and Y confusion

January 7, 2009

Oxford University Press has produced new materials for primary schools aimed at encouraging boys to read. I’m not qualified even to start pondering the biosocial reasons why young boys apparently […]

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Liz Wagerchick lit, chromosomes, literacy, reading3 Comments

Liz Wager’s vital statistics

January 5, 2009

One of my best presents this Christmas was a slim book called the Pocket World in Figures, published by The Economist. […]

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Liz WagerAfrica, Chinea, Japan, Malawi, statistics0 Comments

Liz Wager on Newton and the history of fish

November 19, 2008

Delays in publication are not new and neither, it seems, are bureacratic hurdles which mean that institutions fail to recognise important things. According to Wikipedia the Royal Society had no […]

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Liz WagerEdmund Halley, Newton, Principia Mathematica, research, Royal Society0 Comments

Liz Wager: Was it worth missing a bus for?

October 13, 2008

Yesterday, I received some great feedback about a workshop I ran. Sorry if this sounds horribly self-congratulatory, but I’d like to share it with you. At the start of the […]

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Liz WagerLikert scales, Training2 Comments

Liz Wager on the Large Hadron Collider – a qualified success?

September 9, 2008

News of the Large Hadron Collider, which is due to smash its first atoms on 10 September, makes me wonder not about subatomic particles but about adjectives. When I teach […]

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Liz WagerLarge Hadron Collider, research, study types14 Comments

Liz Wager: Romanian ramblings

August 12, 2008

I’m just back from a week’s holiday in Romania. If your idea of a relaxing break is designer shopping, things that run on time and predictability, then I recommend you […]

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Liz Wagerholidays, Romania, society, Western Europe6 Comments

Liz Wager: Speechless with admiration

July 1, 2008

Losing your power of speech is the stuff of nightmares but is a reality to many people after a stroke. I’ve just been on a one-day workshop run by Connect, […]

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Liz Wager: Life in the fast lane

June 17, 2008

Has anyone ever studied why life speeds up the older you get? John Mortimer (in The Summer of a Dormouse – which should be required reading for any geriatrics rotation) […]

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Liz Wagergerontology3 Comments

Liz Wager: Would you review a paper by your ex-husband?

June 3, 2008

Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised by the revelation (from recently released official papers) that the UK Government wanted to suppress findings about the dangers of smoking because it was worried […]

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Liz Wager: Training and the placebo effect

May 13, 2008

I’ve been at the Vienna School of Clinical Research running a publication workshop for an enthusiastic bunch of doctors, researchers and drug company folk. Back home, catching up on my […]

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