YouTube recommended a video to me because I had watched some nonsense or other and unusually it unearthed a gem. I love my rock music but I can be just as easily wowed by anyone performing in any field of endeavour where complete mastery is demonstrated. I was reminded of this today as my cricket […]
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Archive | May, 2010
Synthetic Organism…
May 22, 2010 
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I was asked today about Craig Venter’s momentous achievement in producing the first synthetic organism. My pupil had been reading the papers and was alarmed by what he had read. I suspect he had been reading the Daily Mail but I may be doing him a disservice. (The Mail’s more factual article is much better.) […]
Read moreBottled Water…
May 17, 2010 2 Comments
Looking at the statistics for UK bottled water consumption is interesting. In 1980 we drank 30 million litres; by 1990 it had risen to 420 million litres; in 2000 it was 1.42 billion litres and 2010 is set to top 2.09 billion litres of bottled water consumed. I was interested by this paragraph from the […]
Read moreWe’ve Been Building Rockets…
May 12, 2010 1 Comment
My favourite time of the summer term is when the scholarship exams are over, the Winchester entrances are done and Fifth Form and I can settle down to the important business of rocket building. The machines are black powder fuelled and reach 300 metres or so in a remarkably short time. They are sometimes constructed […]
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