Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

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what? up at 5am after posting here at 1am....thought only myself winny churchill and mrs thatch were the only ones capable of running the country on this much sleep. welcome to the club

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what? up at 5am after posting here at 1am....thought only myself winny churchill and mrs thatch were the only ones capable of running the country on this much sleep. welcome to the club

When I were a lad we used to live in a cardboard box in t' middle of t' road and work 25 hours a day 8 days a week.

When me dad came 'ome, 'e used to slash us to sleep wi 't bread knife.

You tell kids today that, and they won't effin believe you.

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what? up at 5am after posting here at 1am....thought only myself winny churchill and mrs thatch were the only ones capable of running the country on this much sleep. welcome to the club

When I were a lad we used to live in a cardboard box in t' middle of t' road and work 25 hours a day 8 days a week.

When me dad came 'ome, 'e used to slash us to sleep wi 't bread knife.

You tell kids today that, and they won't effin believe you.

yep...kids get it way too easy these days. but is that our fault or theirs

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Here's a bit of trivia for you maths fans. (See, that reads better if I say math fans) Watch...

Here's a bit of trivia for you math fans.

"ONE" is the only number in the English language to have its letters in reverse alphabetical order.

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Wow!


Mathematics is at the heart of any research and, in nature, it can be used to predict and enhance our surroundings and ultimately control it. The logical conclusion to the concept is frightening: there could be a mathematical formula for every aspect of life

Fill a thimble full of soil, analyse it, and you’ll have 10,000 bacterial organisms to look at. Isn’t that amazing? Well, it’s also, apparently, untrue. Investigators at New Mexico’s Los Alamo national laboratory have been digging deeper than most into the science of prokaryotes – single-celled beings – and finally announced in early September that there’s a damn sight more of them than we’d previously thought. 10,000 organisms in a thimble of soil? That’s small fry, yesterday’s figure. Try this number on for size – one million.

If that’s not mind-boggling enough, what about this? In a garden with one ton of soil there could be as many as 10,000 trillion prokaryotes – that’s about 10,000 times the number of stars in the Milky Way.

[AndrewT]

Wow!


Mathematics is at the heart of any research and, in nature, it can be used to predict and enhance our surroundings and ultimately control it. The logical conclusion to the concept is frightening: there could be a mathematical formula for every aspect of life

Fill a thimble full of soil, analyse it, and you’ll have 10,000 bacterial organisms to look at. Isn’t that amazing? Well, it’s also, apparently, untrue. Investigators at New Mexico’s Los Alamo national laboratory have been digging deeper than most into the science of prokaryotes – single-celled beings – and finally announced in early September that there’s a damn sight more of them than we’d previously thought. 10,000 organisms in a thimble of soil? That’s small fry, yesterday’s figure. Try this number on for size – one million.

If that’s not mind-boggling enough, what about this? In a garden with one ton of soil there could be as many as 10,000 trillion prokaryotes and 50 moles – that’s about 10,000 times the number of stars in the Milky Way.

FYP

[kinboshi]

Tom, have you been watching "Inside The Human Body"?

On the BBC, and better in HD.

Second one of the series was on tonight. Watch it on iplayer if you haven't seen it.  Fascinating subject, done brilliantly by the BBC, with Dr Michael Mosley.

Thanks Kin.

Mrs Red loves all that biological malarkey too.

You got round to watching this yet?

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Tom, have you been watching "Inside The Human Body"?

On the BBC, and better in HD.

Second one of the series was on tonight. Watch it on iplayer if you haven't seen it.  Fascinating subject, done brilliantly by the BBC, with Dr Michael Mosley.

Thanks Kin.

Mrs Red loves all that biological malarkey too.

You got round to watching this yet?

Not yet kin . Your description of it reminded me of this excellent, but sadly banned advert.

[Jon MW]

Here's a bit of trivia for you maths fans. ...

"ONE" is the only number in the English language to have its letters in reverse alphabetical order.

no it isn't

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Here's a bit of trivia for you maths fans. ...

"ONE" is the only number in the English language to have its letters in reverse alphabetical order.

no it isn't

Isn't it?

[Jon MW]

Here's a bit of trivia for you maths fans. ...

"ONE" is the only number in the English language to have its letters in reverse alphabetical order.

no it isn't

Isn't it?

No, took me about 0.4 seconds to think of a counter example

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Here's a bit of trivia for you maths fans. ...

"ONE" is the only number in the English language to have its letters in reverse alphabetical order.

no it isn't

Isn't it?

No, took me about 0.4 seconds to think of a counter example

Damn that Maths for the Under Fives website, they should get their facts right. I coulda lost a prop bet.

[gatso]

I can't think of another one, what is it?

[boldie]

I can't think of another one, what is it?

Confused..thought I had it and then realised that I'm an idiot.

Can't think of any other number

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I can't think of another one, what is it?

I tried to think of it and realised that boldie is an idiot.