A couple of months ago I arrived home from work to find a delivery of groceries on our doorstep. The thing is, we hadn’t ordered any groceries. Plus, they were from Coles, which isn’t where we get our deliveries from. We brought the groceries in, put the cold things into our fridge/freezer and I rang…
Learning
A lesson from the Queen
As an Aussie, the Queen was my Head of State. Her passing last week had me thinking about her life and what she meant to me. Queen Elizabeth II was someone I admired greatly. She wasn’t born to be Queen, but thanks to the abdication by her uncle, she found herself in the role. A…
PEMDAS v BODMAS
I always thought maths, at least basic maths, was fairly black and white. 2 + 2 = 4. The only possible solution is 4. Any other answer is wrong. Turns out, in your own country basic maths is black and white, but when you start leaping international borders it is suddenly… grey. I grew up…
Witches, women and beer
This is the supposed origin story of witches. I read about it the other day and found it fascinating. Apparently, until the 1500s, the job of brewing beer was a woman’s job. Beer has been drunk for something like 7,000 years, and as it used grains and was part of a normal diet, the fermentation…
Academic agenda (covid example)
I’m getting quite frustrated at the portrayal in the media of “facts” by academics that are only half the story. I guess because we’ve had a series of catastrophes it’s been happening more and more often over the last 16 months. Academic experts are often called upon to give their knowledge in support of a…