If anyone is interested Cambridge University has an opening for the Lucasian Chair of mathematics. Previous holders include Issac Newton, George Stokes, Charles Babbage, Paul Dirac and Stephen Hawking. I am actually surprised by the advertisement since I thought they generally had someone earmarked for the job when the tenure of the incumbent ended.
Have you ever wondered why the world is like it is. I have to admit I used to ponder this question all the time but then I spent more time with people and began to realise that the majority of people are functional morons barely able to muster enough cognitive ability to wipe their own…
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I came across this magnificent graphic in this report by the consulting group McKinsey. It is one of those facts that you think you know but have not any way internalised. Of course my car sits idle for the majority of the time but when someone puts it in a graphic such as this it is…
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Our body is made of flesh and bones. We know it, and in our daily lives all the senses constantly provide converging information about this simple, factual truth. But is this always the case? Here we report a surprising bodily illusion demonstrating that humans rapidly update their assumptions about the material qualities of their body,…
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Every so often I drift back into my original field and come across something that should be shared with the wider community.
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It is early in the year but we have a clubhouse leader for my favourite paper of the year. A higher chocolate consumption has been linked with reduced risks for the development of cardiometabolic disorders.1 The authors’ experience is that chocolate consumption in a hospital environment is a relatively common occurrence, and that gifts from patients…
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STOCK market investors who buy and sell on the flip of a coin might sound irresponsible, but a handful of random traders could be just what markets need to avoid bubbles and subsequent crashes. Financial booms and busts occur when traders all rush to purchase or sell stock just because others around them are. “I…
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Local chemistry teacher James Kennedy has done something very clever – he has given a breakdown of all the chemicals that occur naturally in food. This seems to be somewhat of a pushback to the knee jerk reaction people have when they see lists of ingredients in food and then freak out that it is…
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I first heard of Professor Terry Speed not through our local media which is obsessed with provincial sport stars and bogans but rather through the BBC podcast More or Less which I consider to be compulsory listening. So doing a bit of digging I came across the following video. If you want a quick…
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