Archive for the ‘Academic’ Category

The things History does to me.

Fully submersed in this Beatles stuff I’ve realised that, regarding the ‘Paul is dead’ thing, even if you think it’s all tripe, the answer is simple.
Let’s look at the clues for it. These are the reasonable ones.

sudden growth spurt
fingerprint change
handedness.

We also have temperament, facial structure and vocal quality.
To put it very briefly; SCIENCE.
It’s plausible that [...]


On being British, or more like English…

There is not much that compares to writing about the Beatles when you’re feeling under the weather. For one, you don’t often get as many opportunities to write “Bealtes”.
However, it’s reminded me of a question from the other week;

What does ‘British’ mean to you?

For me: chavs, football, tea, the Beatles, scarves, roses, soup in a [...]


my ongoing Beatles obsession

The Beatles are/were really, really fascinating. And that’s before you even get to the ‘Paul is Dead’ theory (click here for a really detailed site about it).

I got this picture from Last.fm; I don’t have an account there, but I like looking at their statistics. The Beatles are their most played artist, followed by Radiohead, [...]


la chimie! & more sound twins!

My Open University stuff came today, in a big cardboard box, like you get a laptop in. I now own molymods. They are kind of excellent, & I may have to take a photo at some point.
Additionally; I was going to post this before, but I’ve got more Sound Twins. The first is “Caesar (feat. [...]


ambitious, but not quite a tapeworm

(Mrs S, when did I say your tapeworm was ambitious? ICR.)
I’m going to be ever-so-slightly ambitious and write a few research papers… I’m not entirely sure where this idea came from, but I think it might be useful for when I apply to university. Marginally more useful than Grade 8 in trombone or Gold Duke [...]


return of the post-it notes

Of course they have a use. ;__;
They’re supposed to be for Biology (sujet du jour), but some of them are on Critical Thinking. My exam is on the 24th, but I need to revise the fallacy terminology – I don’t think we were tested on it last module?

The idea is that if I stick them [...]


A walk on the WiLD SiDE!

A break from Chemistry means pimping the Ashby Creative blog:

Click on the image above and you get to read my ever-so-slightly crackish babble about church and stuff I wrote on Thursday! There’s all caps and everything!
(and also everyone else is good at poetry! so you can read some good stuff to wipe any of mine [...]


[Podcast] PodTutor

Googling for revision techniques (I usually do flash cards and posters, but there are only so many brainstorms one can make) I came across PodTutor, which is an A-level revision podcast.
This sounds like absolute genius (using diagrams as cover art = +200) but I subscribed to the sample, and the execution completely kills it.

it’s automated, [...]


prefection, or a similar bad pun

As of today, I am officially a ~*~prefect~*~!
Honestly speaking, this only means that I’ve completed 25 (well, 26) hours of work after school hours. This is how the school prefect system works:

25 hours – certificate, red badge
40 hours – black badge
60 hours – gold/yellow badge
100 hours – platinum badge

Of course, I’m aiming for 100… I [...]


in case anybody wanted to see it…

… here is my fabulously shambolic acid rain presentation from Friday!
1) see here. 2) a breakdown of acid rain 3) levels in Europe* 4) causes of acid rain (featuring an imaginary SUV).
* the red part IS NOT Scandinavia, I’m told. Billy, who is the authority on everything,  reckons it’s Poland.
If you would care to enlarge [...]