Today has been fairly ordinary. Snow fell, but that’s becoming old news. Can’t remember many times when we have had so many distinct instances of snow. The remainder of a maths assessment was administered, marked, spreadsheeted and analysed. This was the 2011 SAT paper, the last one I took children through at my previous school. […]
Simply awesome! I love the pianist here. After all, this rag was originally written in 1899 by the King of Ragtime, Scott Joplin.Anyway, the full post has a video of Robbie Bancroft playing the piece on 59 different pianos.
To my blog, I have been thinking about you, I promise. But I also have been working harder than ever these past few months, buying a house, preparing for a new job and thinking about maths, some of these things simultaneously. I had no real time away this holiday – a few short and wonderful […]
While out Geocaching yesterday, we completed a cache that asked us to visit the viewing area by the side of Emley Moor transmitting station. The tower, a symbol of Yorkshire and the tallest freestanding structure in the country at a height of 1,084 feet (330 m) and, at the time of writing, the 25th tallest tower in […]
Who knew that something as simple, as joyous, as a crayon could evolve into something so diverse and useful over time? Since 1903, when Crayola launched their pack of eight colours containing red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, brown, and black. By 1998, that number had increased to 133 different hues. For blues alone you have a choice of aquamarine, blizzard blue, blue bell, […]
National Geographic has produced this set of four wonderful infographics to illustrate the World now that there are 7 billion people living on it. Along side these, they have created the face of 7 billion, an image made up of 7000 human figures, each representing 1000000 people. This image is zoomable on the website to allow you […]
Another infographic, this time about Google. You really will need to see the full picture for this one, click away. [Via Jason Pollock] Related articles 5 Must Read Google+ Infographics (jamkib.wordpress.com)
I wanted this to be a considered and informed post, which is the reason I waited a while to write it. For those who don’t care (why are you reading this?), or haven’t heard, it was announced this morning that from 2012 to 2018 only half the F1 races will broadcast live on the BBC […]
Simply fascinating. This collection by Analytic Graphics Inc. shows real-time (updated every 30 seconds) positions of 13,000 satellites around the Earth. The positions come from a government-sponsored database which shows all satellites. You get the idea that our near-earth space is getting kind of cluttered don’t you? Play with a plug-in here.