Beard
Trying to grow a beard might seem easy: you just let it do that, grow… However, I am just realising there is more to meet the eye, or the beard as it were. I have… Read More »Beard
Trying to grow a beard might seem easy: you just let it do that, grow… However, I am just realising there is more to meet the eye, or the beard as it were. I have… Read More »Beard
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 33,000 times in… Read More »2013 in review
Source: BBC News Magazine What were the most significant numbers of 2013? Several experts name their favourites, and explain why. David Spiegelhalter, Cambridge University: My number of the year is 7.3. This is the average response… Read More »The numbers of the year 2013
Indeed my dear readers, as you well know the end of the year is looming. A time to reflect about the last 12 months and the things that happened during that time… and what a… Read More »100 things we didn’t know last year
IoP Talk announced: Thoery, model and simulation: An involved association Jan 29th 2014, 19.00-20.00
Newsblog: Readers choice of 2013 : Nature News & Comment. Keeping up with the well-established tradition of year-end lists, here is one from Nature’s blog: 1. Experiments reveal that crabs and lobsters feel pain 7… Read More »Nature’s Readers choice of 2013
Great poster for the Marriott London Sevens Rugby, I particularly like the tentacles cheering up. Well done!
Once again Google puts out a doodle worth mentioning. This time they celebrate the 107th birthday anniversary of computer scientist Grace Hopper. In case you do not know who Hopper is, well, let me… Read More »Grace Hopper Doodle
I had the chance to attend the latest LondonR meeting last week. It was a good interesting gathering and I was pleasantly surprised to see that it was well attended by a variety of like-minded… Read More »LondonR – Shiny