Category Archives: Humour
Influence of Abstruse Goose
Did anyone notice that Gmail dropped to pop up reminders about attachments, headers etc after Abstruse Goose published this Cartoon. Or maybe just a co-incidence
xkcd.com rules
This comic from xkcd.com is the first reference I’ve found explaining Emmy Noether’s achievements in terms accessible to secondary students. I first came across her in The Mathematical Brain (Butterworth) – she didn’t even get explicitly mentioned in my undergraduate … Continue reading
Blogging as DIY advertising
Walter Kirn’s blog post about the Obama assassination is a corker. Too classy for The Onion. Although he considers his blogging to be giving-it-away-free, I find that it’s essentially advertising. If he wasn’t blogging or writing for sites without a … Continue reading
The stats of modern life (poem by Wislawa Szymborska)
A WORD ON STATISTICS by Wislawa Szymborska copied from here. Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two. Unsure of every step: almost all the rest. Ready to help, if it doesn’t take long: forty-nine. Always good, … Continue reading
Wonderful essay by Walter Kirn
Lost in the Meritocracy. Fabulous soundbites: “Aptitude for showing aptitude”. Oxford being “a sociocultural VIP room that happened to hold classes in the back”. Maybe I’ll try to read his essay about Warren Buffett sometime in the future. Here’s the … Continue reading
Spikedmath funny for the students
Confusion.
Obscure patents website
Worthy of The Onion but seems to be real.
“The papers of AJ Wentworth” by HF Ellis
I found this book in the Union library. I’d never read a book about a maths teacher, and English schools were doing my head in (the whole PGCE was doing my head in!). So in my end of term exhaustion and misery the … Continue reading
