I was briefly a millionaire in “89 when I found myself in Belgrade for the day on my way somewhere; I think it was the equivalent of about £50. (View Post)

I have occasionally helped prepare students for university interviews. The hardest thing to get across is that sometimes the better answer to a question is “I don’t know (though it might be…)” rather… (View Post)

I think we all have large gaps in what we know: the best one can do is try not to be confidently wrong. One of the hardest lesson a teacher learns is that sometimes the answer to a student’s question… (View Post)

One of the brightest people I know is now a maths graduate who is now a professor at Oxford. After he graduated I had a conversation with him where I had to explain the causes of the seasons (he thou… (View Post)

https://xkcd.com/2501/ (View Post)