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An encounter you won’t forget
McBurney’s performance recounts the story of Loren McIntyre– an American photographer who travels into the Amazon rainforest to attempt to capture on film an elusive, indigenous people called the Mayoruna. It quickly becomes apparent however that this story did not happen in the past alone, but is also happening in the present. This is uniquely…
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The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
Great book. Obviously some of the plot lines, as many others have said, seem massively coincidental at best, but what are books for? It’s possible I suppose. Also defined a new era of thrillers which explains the many movie adaptations it spurred.
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1984 by George Orwell
Wow. This book is pretty amazing when you consider the strange psychological ideas Orwell plays with throughout. It is fairly depressing and makes you think. If there’s one thing I can guarantee, if you read it right, is that this book will change your point of view not just about politics but the way we…
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Don’t tell me, show me
“Do not simply tell people what happens in a story – show them”. This is a major pseudo-rule in story telling. Its what turns a series of random events into a story with a plot and individual interpretation. However, a similar pattern comes up in scientific research. We see that when we are simply told…
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Knowledge
When somebody knows everything, they might be right in their own eyes, but certainly not from a less biased perspective. Knowing everything means that there is nothing you do not understand – and when somebody reaches that level of unwillingness to learn then they are infinitely more stupid than someone who is clueless but is…
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Give me Ten Second by John Sergeant
A great insider account of life at the BBC, as well of the politics of the 70s through the 90s. The book is full of funny little stories and anecdotes and can bring the personalities of some famous political figures such as Sir Edward Heath and Alastair Campbell down to earth.The ending of the book…
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All Will Be Well: Good Advice from Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill
Great man, great advice. As with most quotes, just pop any old one out and it will be relevant in some way.
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To infinity and its negative – a demonstration of the nature of space in the universe
This graph is analogical to movement in the universe. It is in fact the graph of the reciprocal of the hyperbolic tan function. What I wanted to demonstrate was the seemingly impossible nature of the graph switching from a value of infinity to negative infinity across the line x=0. I think that when we do…
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A Mathematical Anecdote Analogous to Chemical Resonance
What this little conundrum suggests is that in infinitely switching between two states, the final result is halfway in between. This is the reasoning behind the structure of benzene and the ionic carboxylate group. s = 1 – 1 + 1 – 1 + … (-1) * s = (-1) * (1 – 1 +…
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A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Very good book – intriguing style of writing since each chapter is written from a different point of view (and seems to always end on a cliffhanger).
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Thoughts of Geresy 