We Don’t Have Five Senses
johndabell Ask most people how many senses we have and they’ll probably opt for the classical Aristotelian answer of five: vision, hearing, touch, taste, smell. But this is wrong. We don’t…
Misconception
The World’s Tallest Mountain?
On the bucket list of many adventurers is climbing Mount Everest. They want to do this because they want to reach the summit and say they are on top of…
Maths Misconceptions: Probability
Tossing a coin isn’t as fair as it seems. The Khan Academy say this: And they are wrong. They aren’t alone in thinking the theoretical probability that a fair coin…
The University of Sexism
Every now and then I get an ‘alumni’ magazine through the post from a university I attended and it annoys me. It annoys me because they are always pushing me…
Misconception: Walking Down The Aisle
Brides spend forever choosing a dress and when they have found ‘the one’, they hear “You’ll look beautiful going down the aisle!” But they won’t. They’ll look beautiful going up…