Friday, October 31, 2008

Halloween treats play a trick on us

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We bought an infinite (and diverse) supply of chocolate bars at the supermarket ages ago. Concerned about a re-run of last year, when we wer...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Russell Brand and the hemline test

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The fuss over Russell Brand's and Jonathan Ross's concept of a good joke is perhaps symptomatic. ThisIsMoney.co.uk wrote as follow...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008

The Northern Clemency – Philip Hensher

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Is this just a superior soap opera? Malcolm and Katherine Glover live in a middle class suburb of Sheffield (it’s 1974) with their teenage c...

The Story of Maths Part 4

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It's like shooting fish in a barrel, but here goes. This was the final episode and Professor Marcus du Sautoy highlighted Cantor , Poinc...
Monday, October 27, 2008

Alexithymia

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In the Amazon Vine novel I am currently reviewing - " The Northern Clemency ", by Philip Hensher - there is a character called Fra...

Is the moon there when nobody looks?

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Interesting article about this question, which puzzled Einstein, over at Cosmic Variance here . The main focus of the post is the chaotic or...
Sunday, October 26, 2008

Gyles Brandreth

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We went down to the local Andover theatre, The Lights , yesterday evening for "An Audience with Gyles Brandreth " (pictured). Gyl...
Friday, October 24, 2008

Rooksbury Mill Park

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We went down to the Vodafone shop in Andover this afternoon so that Alex, currently with us for a couple of days after returning from a four...

The Recession of 2009

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Communication from the future to the past is 'difficult' but sometimes it works. A reader from 2093 writes: "Dear Ancestor, I r...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008

The Story of Maths Part 3

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In which our presenter, maths professor Marcus du Sautoy, gets on to the beginning of real (European) maths: Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz, Eu...