Is this pause the bit where the outgoing President is supposed to say something? (View Post)

Try explaining what your first computer cost and how much memory you got with it: I normally have to explain what KB are at that point. (I do this in the lesson on SI prefixes). (View Post)

I remember a "Modest Proposal" type suggestion in New Scientist back in the eighties that currency should be backed not by gold or silver but nuclear waste. Part of the idea was that intern… (View Post)

I think the law in England is (or perhaps used to be) that ten years of "adverse possession" gave squatters the ownership of the building, so that may not be the killer argument she thinks … (View Post)

Pub? Not Pubs? Doesn't sound that nice to me... (View Post)