As you can see, it features Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, Maxwell's Equations and the Schrodinger Equation.
Clearly the Portuguese have a different approach to mathematical physics education than we do here in the U.K.
Monday, 29 July 2013
Portuguese Toilet Roll
I'm not entirely sure what to make of this.
As you can see, it features Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, Maxwell's Equations and the Schrodinger Equation.
Clearly the Portuguese have a different approach to mathematical physics education than we do here in the U.K.
As you can see, it features Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, Maxwell's Equations and the Schrodinger Equation.
Clearly the Portuguese have a different approach to mathematical physics education than we do here in the U.K.
Sunday, 16 June 2013
Summer's Here!
Exam Boards are over. There's a short window between now and the Resits. The sun is out. The days are long.
I'm obviously showing my age but this is one of those songs to which I can't help smiling.
I'm obviously showing my age but this is one of those songs to which I can't help smiling.
Saturday, 1 June 2013
Friday, 31 May 2013
Sometimes it just gets too weird
Cheese-maker warned against supplying Gloucester cheese-rolling
Apparently it went off okay though.
Kenny Rackers, 27, travelled more than 4,000 miles from Colorado Springs to a steep hill in Gloucestershire to take part in the world-famous event.
"I came over specially for this and I did what I had to do to win," he said afterwards.
"It feels great, I trained a long time for this and got hurt on the hill practising. I came three days early and I took a bad spill, but I came to win and that's what I did.
"I came 3,000 or 4,000 miles just for this race. I put it on my bucket list and today it was to win and that's what I did."
The fourth men's race was won by Tomoaki Tanaka, 39, from Japan, who dressed as a ninja to race down the hill.
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
The Dangers of Aggregation
What's wrong with this Visualisation?
Look at the top level geographical presentation (i.e. all of the USA).
Pretty shocking!
Now drill down by increasing the resolution, looking say at the quite big patch of "most hate" tweets just west of Wyoming.
The dangers of aggregation!
One could also look at the U.S. East Coast for a similar effect.
Look at the top level geographical presentation (i.e. all of the USA).
Pretty shocking!
Now drill down by increasing the resolution, looking say at the quite big patch of "most hate" tweets just west of Wyoming.
The dangers of aggregation!
One could also look at the U.S. East Coast for a similar effect.
Brief Round-Up
Lots of interesting stuff around at the moment...
- Over at Mike Flynn's blog, a very nice post which ties together bats, birds, linguistic evolution, the philosophy of chemistry and dinosaurs.
- Over at Siris, Brandon Watson has an interesting post about edutainment. Given the current trend for "gamification" of educational resources in HE and the fact that research is fairly consistent in, at least, casting doubt on the fact that students always actually recognise when they have learnt something, this is something that should concern most educators.
- At The Renaissance Mathematicus, Thony Christie looks at Galileo's Theory of Tides and draws lessons for today's scientists.
Monday, 13 May 2013
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