Khan Academy emailed me with the following video. If you aren’t familiar with their website you should go and take a look. It is amazing. I suspect that, given it stores its videos on YouTube, it will not be able to make it work at school but I will look into it. Do go and look …
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Category:Blogs ‘n’ Ends
Twig Prep…
I have added a new online resource for you, called Twig Prep. It is a collection of videos and downloadable fact sheets/question sheets. You need to log in to use it. Your username is your surname and the password is the same one that I always use – email me if you have any doubts. …
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Chuck Berry…
I did wonder whether to go for Johnny Be Dead as the title. Or perhaps Chuck Buried. But to be frank I am really saddened by the news that a 90 year old man has died. It is hard to describe what effect his music had upon me when I heard it for the first time on …
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RI Christmas Lectures…
I don’t really watch TV now but I used to love the annual Royal Institution Christmas Lectures on the BBC. Each year a different professional scientist is asked to present three one hour lectures on their particular area of expertise. It is aimed at children but doesn’t talk down to its audience teaches about real science. …
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Ghost Of Christmas Past…
I have tried various Christmas themed posts over the years. The first Blog Christmas was 2009 when I wrote Bright Paper Packages – it has a video in it that has my voice, something that currently only occurs in one other place on the blog. In 2011 I produced successive posts entitled Gold, Frankincense and …
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Travelling…
There will be a brief hiatus whilst I am travelling out to France for the second half of the holiday. I am very much hoping that the winds will die down for the crossing! In the meantime, I have had another go at adding a Facebook-type community forum to the site and I think I …
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Statistsics For 2015…
Happy New Year!
The year’s statistics for visitors, commenters and other contributors in 2015.
Test…
__author__ = ‘theoretical physicist 42’ profession = input(“What do you want to study at university”) if profession == “physics”: print(“you are a student at Stanford training to be a physicist.”) myvar1 = input(“do you want to study or party?”) if myvar1 == “study”: print(“you got a first degree”) myvar2 = input(“do you want to go …
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Needless Finagling…
Adam Buxton again and this post is for Members Only.
Competition Three…
[Fraser has won Competition Three] OK. I have a copy of Evolution: How We And All Living Things Came To Be by Daniel Loxton as a prize for Competition Three. This is the best prize yet and will go to the SF boy who best answers and explains the following problem. Mr Bishop has an …
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