By John | January 30, 2010
It has been snowing since last Wednesday. And we and the neighbours are starting to run out of places to put the snow we’ve cleared.
Since I took these pictures, it has continued to snow, and snow is forecast to continue until at least next Wednesday. One of the neighbours set off in his [...]
By John | January 21, 2010
Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England, gave a speech at the University of Exeter this week. He uses an example of “Sudoku for Economists” (pdf file, 47 kB) to illustrate why the mess the world economy is in is unlikely to get any better. He produces a small 9-celled “sudoku table”, to [...]
By John | January 18, 2010
I noticed an article in the Daily Mail today about what Spanish air traffic controllers earn (here). I thought that must be typical exaggeration by the popular press, but decided to see if I find out what they “really” earn. It turns out that the figures are probably accurate – here’s an article in El [...]
By John | January 14, 2010
An interesting video by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety showing a crash test where a 1959 Chevrolet is crashed into a 2009 Chevy. It shows the massive advance in occupant-safety over 50 years. I would not want to be the driver in the older car.
(via Boing Boing)
By John | January 4, 2010
The British government wants to offer the chance to all school children to learn Mandarin and Arabic:
The schools secretary, Ed Balls, said UK plc increasingly needed children to learn the languages of countries where Britain had “very important business contacts”.
All secondary schools should offer lessons in Mandarin, he said, citing a poll in which bosses [...]
