Road Trauma - The real impact.
When the word Road Trauma gets used, we all shudder. Its a scary thought, doing something that in current society is almost a second nature activity, something perceived to be of massive benefit at...
View ArticleEmails with Herb Gross - January 2013
I realise that this isn't a fantastic title - I will think of something better, eventually. Hi all! Today's post is hopefully an bit of an insight into mathematics. You'll (hopefully) remember that...
View ArticleIt's Calculator Time! - Temple Run 2
So... if you don't know yet, Temple Run 2 came out about a fortnight ago. Let's just say I found out on Facebook, and downloaded the app straight away. Now, let's make this clear - I don't like Disney...
View ArticleIt's Calculator Time! - Temple Run 2: Save Me!
Hi all! I realise that I didn't share this with the original Temple Run 2 score calculation post, so I thought that I would share it here. Save Me is an element of the game where you have the option to...
View ArticleCrunching the Numbers: Nuclear Warfare in Korea
If you've been following the news lately (in Australia at least), there's been a lot of discussion about North Korea. I thought I'd write a post up about some of the numbers behind the Korean...
View ArticleThe Möbius Strip!
Tonight's post is a guest post by a friend of the blog, Shaman. He runs a blog, mathemates, and also runs a Facebook page called 'Mathematics'. Check him out! Have you ever seen a shape with one side?...
View ArticleFerris Wheels and Euclid
I thought I might try something a little bit different tonight - bear with me, I hope it's not very boring. As you may have heard me say a few times, I live in Melbourne, Australia. Hope to many weird...
View ArticleThe oddity of zero
So today, I was eating lunch after work when my mate Mike sent me a message on Facebook: "Is physical zero different from numerical zero?" - Mike Of course, the math addict inside of me proceeded to...
View ArticleA (short and sort of mathematical) Rant about the Federal Budget (and...
Well, tonight is going to be a rant about the Federal Budget. Of course, not the US Budget, but the one in Australia, the country I live in. To be nonchalant about how the people that we elect run this...
View ArticleA new direction.
So, I've worked on a lot of things in the last few months. In particular, I worked on a few plugin reviews - of things called LMS, known as a 'Learning Management System'. It was a bit of a new...
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