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You spin me right round baby…

22nd January 2020 Leopard 0

Musings on objects and motion, part one, the basics Recently a comment, that nobody read, was posted by one of our more trollish contributors trying to toll people about the world not be round or [more…]

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From a Sum to a Product

20th January 2020 OldTrout 0

In The Basel Problem we saw that Euler answered the question by showing that the sum of the reciprocals of the square numbers is equal to . That is The partial sums slowly converge to [more…]

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Shunting dusted off

13th January 2020 Sweaty Dave 0

Christmas is always a time that makes me nostalgic, harking back to the time when you looked forwards to presents that didn’t induce a hangover or keep your feet warm. It’s also a time when, [more…]

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Pandora’s Bug

9th January 2020 Tachybaptus 0

How long ago it seems! But it is barely four years since I was a senior researcher at Porton Down, sitting on a shiny chair at a varnished desk and tapping the delicate keyboard of [more…]

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Mathematics

Upsetting people in the Festive Season

1st January 2020 Going Postal 0

Lots of your friends might be very upset this Christmas, Boris has decisively won the election and consequently we are definitely leaving the EU. To make their day you can also explain about why they [more…]

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My adventure in A & E

30th December 2019 Going Postal 0

I blame Tom Pudding’s excellent article on his experiences in an NHS hospital for penning this report on my adventure in A & E this June. It started with me having what is called a [more…]

Arts

Wankpuffin’s 2019 Going Postal Fireside Christmas Special Spectacular

25th December 2019 Going Postal 0

Thanks to all of you who wrote the songs. We couldn’t use all of them, due to lack of time and talent (see grovelling apology in the credits). They will be used in the next [more…]

Cooking

21 nourishing meals for Twenty Quid! (Part One)

19th December 2019 Grimy Miner 0

In the course of a conversation in the comments (which nobody reads) the subject of food banks came up, and specifically a comment made in a newspaper by a Deli owner that he could cook [more…]

Health

It started with a piss

19th December 2019 Tom Pudding 0

I don’t know why, but for me medical problems always seem to occur at the most inconvenient times possible, usually on a Saturday evening. And so it was one Saturday in late October 2019 when [more…]

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