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Reminder: this news page has movedThis is just a quick reminder to let any remaining subscribers to this news feed know that this will not be updated any more. From now on, all my updates are on my greatly more interesting and frequently updated blog. As this was such a boring, housekeeping message, I’ll compensate with my favourite joke: A: Look! There’s a flock of cows over there. B: Herd of cows. A: Of course I’ve heard of cows: there’s a flock of them over there! A man can wait a lifetime for a chance to use comedy gold like that. This line is a permanent link - use it if you want to bookmark or link to this news item Fri, 31 Aug 2007
My news has now moved!For those of you who follow my website’s news with a feed reader, please note that this feed will no longer be updated. From now on, I’m keeping my news up to date - more often - using my new blog, which can be found at bamboobadger.blogspot.com. You can find a new feed if you visit the site, and I promise to make it all rather more interesting and newsworthy. This line is a permanent link - use it if you want to bookmark or link to this news item Thu, 30 Aug 2007
Got a Twitter accountI’ve opened an account on Twitter as an experiment. My thinking is that that this could be particularly useful for my students to know whether I’m in the office or not. My updates on where I am and what I’m doing can be found at http://twitter.com/ianwalkerThis line is a permanent link - use it if you want to bookmark or link to this news item
Walking in North WalesI’ve just got back from walking the northern section of the Cambrian Way, through Snowdonia from Cadair Idris to Conwy. Tough walking, but fantastic views. You can see some photographs, if you like This line is a permanent link - use it if you want to bookmark or link to this news item Wed, 08 Aug 2007
Creativity surveyOne of my masters students is doing a survey on how people perceive creativity in drawings. If you have a minute or two, please visit the survey. It takes anything from five seconds to as long as you like, so no matter how much time you can spare, you can help her. Please do tell other people about the survey This line is a permanent link - use it if you want to bookmark or link to this news item Sat, 04 Aug 2007
Got spare time? In the middle of nowhere? Play HAMBACK!Recently, whilst doing some solo wild camping, I realized it would be useful to have some simple entertainment for evenings spent alone. I have therefore created a game derived from backgammon and called Hamback. Read all about it.This line is a permanent link - use it if you want to bookmark or link to this news item Wed, 11 Jul 2007
About the logoVarious people have asked me about the logo at the top of all the pages on this site. The original picture was taken by a photographer called Graham Quick when we were in the Maldives together just after the 2005 Asian tsunami, distributing aid around one of the outlying atolls. After a week on an amazing old Indian Ocean cargo ship, we returned to the capital, Male, for a couple of days, and for something to do Graham and I took a ferry to Hulumale, a newly constructed island next to the capital. Male, despite being a capital city, is situated on a tiny island which is quite literally full, and Hulemale had been built as an overflow for new developments. When we were there, the building had only just begun and it was the strangest experience. The island had much of its infrastructure in place — it was full of roads, lamp-posts, and so on — but hardly any buildings, giving it a baked, baren, almost post-apocalyptic feel. Impressed with the feel of the place, Graham took this photo of me using a (working) telephone booth which stood all alone in the middle of a vast nothingness. I doctored the image slightly to emphasize the emptiness of the scene (originally the picture did not extend so far to the left), but it’s still a meaningful representation of a very hot, memorable day on a very strange island. This line is a permanent link - use it if you want to bookmark or link to this news item Wed, 07 Mar 2007
Cycling Plus - the full referencesCycling Plus Magazine number 194 (March 2007) has a feature based on my research, mostly the really exciting stuff on how the tendency for some road users to remain looking human whilst travelling can affect their safety. The list of references in that article is slightly curtailed, so here is the full list:
I can provide copies of my own papers on request if they’re for research purposes. The slightly less serious (although still accurate) analysis of white van overtaking can be found on Philica. Finally, there’s an interesting little study of what people’s descriptions of road scenes tells us about their perceptions of different types of road user in Walker, I. (2005) Road users’ perceptions of other road users: Do different transport modes invoke qualitatively different concepts in observers? Advances in Transportation Studies, A6, 25-33. This line is a permanent link - use it if you want to bookmark or link to this news item Tue, 06 Feb 2007
On the News, StatesideA few days ago I went to New York. Sadly this wasn’t to stroll around Manhattan sipping cocktails and getting into scrapes, like whenever Bertie Wooster used to pop over there. Instead I was there to appear on an ABC News 20/20 programme about how people perceive and respond to risks. I believe it’s due to the aired around the end of February, so make sure you don’t miss that one, Merkins. In the meantime, enjoy some pictures of me and interviewer John Stossel freezing our butts off (I’m allowed to say that, as it’s in an American context) near Central Park as we do an outdoor interview before filming some cycling footage. Incidentally, if the taxi driver who took my wife and I back to the airport happens to see this, I left the brown hat you see below in the back of your cab and would really be most grateful for its safe return. By way of a reward, I’m prepared to stop loathing you to the very depths of your soul for lying to me when you said I was obliged to pay the bridge toll as well as the fare.   Oh, and so the South Americans don’t feel left out, I also did an interview on Columbian radio last Saturday to mark Bogota’s annual day of banning cars from the city. What a great idea - do it on a weekday next year! This line is a permanent link - use it if you want to bookmark or link to this news item  RSS feed. 
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