Ciarán Ryan notebook

Beuys and power of his transformation.

Ken Richardson gave a talk at a symposium on the mind held at the Royal institution, London. 1999 (?)

“My argument is that the IQ test is not an objective, scientific instrument at all.

“… we end up with an external score without knowing what the internal quantity it’s supposed to represent really is.

“… it simply measures individuals’ proximity to a specific culture - that of the test designers, and of school learning.”

IQ scores have gone up - which corresponds with the growth of the middle class - would not be expected from an innate fixed power.

“The whole model is psychologically  vacuous and biologically highly naive.”

80 million antler moth caterpillars advanced across Cumbrian fells in June 1999 - eating the grass and driving the sheep to lower pastures.

Each eats a gram or two of leaf tissue every day.

Estimated 1999: 800 tonnes of cannabis are consumed each year by British users.

What affect on country?