"What do you want to be when you grow up?" remains one of my favourite questions of all time. Especially useful to break the ice with people in their later stages in life.
I even started a book on this topic a few years ago. Then my computer crashed and though I still have the notes somewhere [...]

I believe everything is connected. And I love nothing more when I find that two seemingly divergent topics converge.
This time it is my new found interest, knitting/weaving, joins mathematics.
Huh? Well a mathematics researcher at Cornell, Dr. Daina Taimina, started crocheting to help her students visualise hyperbolic space…
"Hyperbolic plane - pseudosphere"

The idea has continued to engage and evole - most recently Dr. Taimina’s work was included [...]

"Police in India’s eastern state of Orissa rounded up about 200 people watching a porn movie in a cinema hall and made them do 10 sit-ups in public as punishment."
Source: With thanks to my friend Annie for the morning smile!

In honour of the Apollo’s, Google Maps has gone to the moon…
And while we are here I thought I might clear up a little quandry - ever wondered about "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"? I mean, man = mankind…says Neil Armstrong there is a small "a" missing. ie "one small step for a [...]

Anagram madness thanks to Thomer!

Just as we got excited about the cool new mapping features - Google’s GoogleEarth, Yahoo’s YahooMaps and Microsoft’s Virtual Earth (forthcoming)…
Now the NYTimes* reports that these web-based maps will be the next growth area in online advertising! How come? Programmers will be able to write code that links data to the maps thus allowing advertising to be embedded in maps.
Says [...]

Change the Present, as you then Change the Past.*
 

 
Clearly I am having a reflecting time right now, however it seems suddenly clear to me that we all have the ability to change, or at least shape, the future (for the positive I hope)! 
How? By excelling not only at reading (and remembering) the past, but in consciously doing [...]

what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.
– John Lennon, Beautiful Boy

I have tried several times to write this post…In the end I am going to simply respond with a few threads:
1. Sending condolences to all those families and friends directly and indirectly involved, and lots of healing, warmth and positivity to London.
2.  I much admire the current English response. Though not one to make comparisions from one tragedy to another, the [...]

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