Suspect it's also that "good physics is beautiful" thing. If the story of the thing being written (a technical paper, a lesson, even a column) is sound, each sucessive step is obvious … (View Post)

Politically, it's taboo because everyone is complicit and has been for decades. Parties in government have gone along with it, because it allows them to tell voters that they're richer than… (View Post)

One of the reasons the mood of the nation (and world?) is as scratchy as it is is our collective impatience. Some (not all, but some) of Starmer's problem is that he's been in office for OV… (View Post)

Agreed, and I think people underestimate how infectious success and ambition are. A couple of pupils like that in a class totally changes the teaching dynamic. A lot of the secret sauce of successful… (View Post)

And, in "this clearly shouldn't need saying, but maybe today it does" news, Mob rule would be a very bad thing. (View Post)