Posts from:
September 2008
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19th September 2008
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18th September 2008BusynessI am slowly starting to learn what it means to be busy. My journey to busyness began just over a year ago, at the start of 5th year. Up until the end of fourth year, life had been easy: as a bright student, with little homework, my school day began at 9am and ended at 3.30pm, and my school week ran from Monday to Friday. Unfortunately, with the start of my Highers, the well-defined lines between school life and home life began to blur. Fourth year was easy. Although I was studying for exams in 8 subjects, and having lessons in PE, ...
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18th September 2008Look Around YouLook around you. Look around you. Just look around you. It is probably not a big surprise to hear that I am quite a fan of the BBC. Over the last few days, discussion in Advanced Higher Physics has led inexorably to one of my favourite programmes that this wonderful institution has produced: Look Around You. The programme needs little introduction: just hop over to YouTube to watch this episode, delicately laced with finest wit and served on a bed of LOL. Free yourself up an hour or so though - the show is about as moreish as a tub of Sour ...
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18th September 2008The Food We EatWith obesity affecting around a third of the Western World, we should now be very concious of the food that we eat. My friend Jerry's new cartoon perfectly sums up the whole issue. I encourage you to check out the rest of his cartoons - you may well learn something from them.
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2nd September 2008MegastructuresRight now I am watching an episode of National Gepgraphic's 'Megastructures'. Today's episode is on the World Financial Centre in Shanghai, China, and whilst interesting it doesn't really do it for me. The main reason is because... well, because it's a building. There's only so much that you can say about it, and in 45 minutes, you're really stretching to find information. To try and solve this, the producers try to create suspense into the program, making it seem as if the build will be late, or made incorrectly... or even that it will be unsuccessful and come tumbling down. The thing ...
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About Wilf's Blog
I'm a mathematician, but apart from that, I'm a fairly normal guy. I used to write a blog - this blog. I write (wrote) about whatever is on my mind. It can get quite personal sometimes.
