by Tom | Dec 8, 2010 | Personal, Reading
Follow-up on the Oxbridge admissions debate makes the very helpful point that the statistics have identified a potential issue, not the cause of it. The issue is that Admission to Oxbridge of BME British students is lower than admission of white British students....
by Tom | Dec 1, 2010 | Personal
National Geographic’s Photography Contest 2010. Lots of brilliant photos there. Some faves:
by Tom | Dec 1, 2010 | Personal, Science
Anticrepuscular rays. Now I know what fingers of god are called. Huzzah. I’m not sure what backwards fingers of god would be called, but they are super funky.
by Tom | Dec 1, 2010 | Personal, Reading
Amazing to have seen Restrepo and read Matterhorn in the same six months. You really feel you understand what it is like to be there, even though you clearly don’t. Proper reportage: you get to have your own thoughts.
by Tom | Nov 26, 2010 | Listen, Personal
How lovely to segue from Graham Norton to Milstein nailing the Kreutzer sonata. Superb.
by Tom | Nov 17, 2010 | Personal, Science
John Snow’s pump. Great story of medical research proving that cholera was waterborne, great infographic, good pub, too. I’d never connected them all, despite often seeming to go to Broadwick Street weekly.
