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Author:SFScience
GMO Discussion…
The following video is from a series called “Why It’s Bad For You” and it discusses genetically modified organisms (GMOs). It is a short and well-edited watch but please do read my list of observations that follow it! . It starts with the assertion that our access to information is filtered by ‘global media corporations’. This strikes me …
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Lost In Translation…
Thinking about a recent comment, I tried the following experiment. I copied the second and third paragraphs from the Headmaster’s introduction on the Summer Fields website. I pasted this text into an online translation website. Firstly I translated the paragraphs into French, then that translation into German and finally back into English. At each translation, some …
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Drawing Graphs…
Often, when an investigation has been completed, you will need to draw a graph to represent your results. There are a few simple rules to help you decide what sort of graph to draw and a few other useful guidelines to make sure that your graph is as clear as possible. The first thing to …
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Yawning…
You may have noticed that I get a bit grumpy when you openly yawn at me in class. It has been happening a lot in the last few days and the yawning towards the end of the HM’s speech on Wednesday morning was of almost epidemic proportions. In part, I don’t like you yawning at me because it feeds …
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Colour Changing Card Trick…
Rise Of The Retrovirals…
I watched Rise of the Planet of the Apes this evening, which had been recommended (and lent) to me by JHB. He is very kind with such things, even though it sometimes takes me several years to return a DVD. I expect most of you have seen it and marvelled at the effects that seamlessly integrate …
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Mozart…
I have heard it said that the music of Mozart has a uniquely helpful effect upon the brain; that it changes the brain in ways that no other music can. Indeed, you can buy specially selected collections of Mozart pieces on CD to play to yourself to improve your performance in tests or to increase …
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Ragondin…
As you probably know, because I go on about it quite a lot, I have a lake at my house in France. It’s probably more of a pond than a lake but let’s not quibble. It is beautiful, but overly weedy and plagued by large rodents called coypu (in English) or ragondin (in French). They are a …
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How Many Faces…
How many faces can you see in the branches of this tree? Clever isn’t it – who are they?