There are really only three blades you need to consider if you are a serious speed skater. This is not as bad a state of affairs as you might think – a few years ago there were only two. Speed skating blades are fascinating things because the task they need to accomplish seems so...
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It’s been a while since I last posted, and in that while I’ve travelled a bit. One of the places I passed through in my travels was London, and I was fortunate enough to pass through during the time of the Olympic Games. There is much to be written about the Olympic games, of...
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Sport is a funny thing. It is almost universally recognized that if you want to be good at a sport, then you have to train for it. However, the “how” in how people go about doing that is a source of endless amusement and frustration. The first mistake is an easy one to make....
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People who religiously adhere to, or defend a doctrine are to be treated with suspicion. Nowhere is this more true than in the strange land of economic ideology. Economics is a young science, and if you look over the history of well-established sciences, then this is cause for concern. It wasn’t all that long...
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It is no secret that I like mathematics. It is generally known that most of the maths that I’m really into would fall under the heading of “pure mathematics”, which is a nice way of saying “mathematics with no real-world application”. I’m into topology, which has nothing to do with maps, and everything to...
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It seems that it has been a while since I last wrote something about photography. It’s not that I’ve given up or anything – far from it, it’s just that I’ve been busy. Since returning from India, and later Mongolia, I have travelled much, but those trips have been work-related, and I was mostly...
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Not long ago, I came across this on my facebook news feed with the caption “First you don’t get it… Then you do… And then you can’t UN-get it!”. The caption describes perfectly the various stages my own mind went through when viewing. It also got me thinking about culture, and the various differences...
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I once read somewhere that if you took a race-ready rally car, and its street-legal equivalent (say a regular Subaru WRX), swapped the tyres, then drove both of them on a rally course, they would finish with very similar times. Why does this happen? Surely the rally car, with its lighter weight, finely-tuned engine,...
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