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Category:Blogs ‘n’ Ends
Picture Mystery…
Of what is this a picture? There might be a prize for the first person to correctly identify it!
A Long Absence…
I know it is unacceptable but I have not felt inspired over the busy summer holidays to write anything profound for the blog. With the term up and running smoothly now it really is time to put pen to paper. I want to write about meat from cloned cows, the Telegraph article about red wine being good …
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Odds And Ends…
Congratulations to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov for winning the Nobel Prize in physics for their work on graphene. You will have read about it here because this blog is at the cutting edge of science innovation! Much has been made of the fact that they came to their discovery by ‘playing’ with sellotape and …
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Housekeeping…
If you have not yet seen the BBC’s Decade of Discovery then you should see it on iPlayer before it expires. If you miss it you can read about it and watch clips here. It is a wonderful show because it helps to explain how science works and shows observable evidence for evolution. It is top stuff! In …
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There Has Been Snow, Apparently…
This picture was taken with NASA’s Terra satellite which has been monitoring weather on Earth since February 2000. It takes around 1½ hours to orbit the earth at a distance of about 420 miles (660 km – it’s orbit is elliptical so it is not always the same distance from earth). Each pixel of the photograph …
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Exponential Growth…
The below describes the effects of exponential growth and is entirely lifted from something I read on the Internet. You may have a copy of the same article in paper form but the links might add to your understanding. The principle is simple. You start with one. Double it and you have two. Double again and …
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Ah, Hollydogs Again…
I hope you are all beginning to relax after the stresses of term. I am out in France for the first time since October and am having to convince an army of flies that this is my place not theirs. They are taking some convincing but I think that I am winning. Over the next …
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The Crimbo Holly-Dogs…
Updated Saturday 20th December I have added to the “About” menu above. You should now find a menu item for your Year Group. It will then link to relevant posts and Twig Prep videos on material we have covered, or are yet to cover, term by term. Get ahead of the game! (Or do some …
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Radley…
I had a good time at the Radley Prep School’s Science Day yesterday. It is always a good opportunity to talk to other prep school science teachers and to talk to the people who may be teaching you in the future. We spent some time talking about the chemistry CE paper, and CE in general, with the man responsible …
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