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15th – 21st December
Wednesday As medicine advances the percentage of HIV carriers in a population tends to stabalise, so a reduction in this percentage could be a sign of poor health provision. Thursday Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency was based partly from ideas … Continue reading
Posted in Lessons, New Year Resolutions 2010
Tagged biology, Dirk Gently, flu, France, geography, Great Britain, HIV, horse, King Henri IV, white sand
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A Week of Fine Lessons
Monday I learnt that Aristophanes and that he wrote a play called “The Birds” but more excitingly invented the phrase “Cloud Cuckoo Land” Tuesday I came across the name parallelepiped for the first time, I am amazed I have not … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancient Greece, cricket, geography, geometry, mathematics, theatre
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July Lessons
Monday Grasshoppers can bite. Tuesday The GM food scare may well have started from a discredited scientific study that poisoned mice with potatoes. All the study really showed was that potatoes contain poisons (which incidently are contained on the outisde … Continue reading
Tagged biology, geography, medical, places, relationships, science
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Do We Learn Anything in June? Of Course We Do (1st-6th June)
Tuesday Today I clarified what the batsman scores in cricket if the fielder catches the ball and touches the boundary (or crosses). As I thoought logically it is a six. Wednesday I found out that not only is Keifer Sutherland … Continue reading
Tagged cricket, entertainment, film, geography, people, places, sport, TV
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15th March – 21st March
Monday – Excitingly along with the vitamin D I am getting from the sunshine I also get 167% of my daily vitamin C requirement from one bottle of orange juice in the college canteen. Another spring thing I learnt is … Continue reading
Tagged architecture, cricket, fashion, food drink, geography, home, mathematics, sport
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March 8th – March 14th
Monday – A golden raspberry award costs £3 to make, congratulations to Sandra Bullock for getting hers (oh and the oscar I suppose too). The most expensive ticket for the Wigan v Liverpool game was £28. Also it is commonwealth … Continue reading
Tagged biology, entertainment, geography, home, people, science
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Ox Bow lakes
Today I learnt that this vital part of Geography in my first year of secondary school is not very easy to find, apparantly as they often fill in. However even more exciting I learnt that a billabong is an ox … Continue reading
new years resolutions
1) Treat life more like a game 2) Learn Something new every day (incidently learnt today that the squeezy thing on the arm when giving blood is to make veins appear, and that PG tips are now part of the … Continue reading
