Very radical idea. Let videos do the teaching to allow the teachers to do the human interaction.

Apparently this Pixar-like short was produced by a single individual!

This is an excellent illustration that the applications of basic research cannot always be predicted. In this case it started more basically than research: art!

The video talks about using dead people to do the work for you! It goes into the mathematics of origami, and their modern uses in satellites, surgery and airbags!

Drosophila melanogaster males may fight over females.

Here is a video showing their ‘boxing’ behaviour.

I remember seeing high speed camera footage in a conference, it was even more exciting because they move too fast for the human eye to appreciate the full extent of the fight.

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as ‘Euro-English’.

In the first year, ‘s’ will replace the soft ‘c’. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard ‘c’ will be dropped in favour of ‘k’. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

Watch this, especially if you are avoiding doing real work by browsing the web.