I started researching this question so that I could present the answer in the simple format that I try to use for the school blog. But then I got drawn into the whole world of continental drift, tectonic plates, earthquakes, volcanoes and lots more. It is fascinating and I will…
Raindrops are round balls of water. When sunlight hits the ball, it goes inside and some of it bounces off the inside of the wall twice and is then reflected back to you. The rest of it just carries on through. The angle between the original ray and the one…
When I went for my interview for possible admission to London University, the interviewer asked me to state Archimedes’ Principle. It goes like this “When a body is immersed in a fluid, the upthrust is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced”. Hey, I was thinking this is going…
Sometime back I wrote about “Springett’s Rule of Gender“. It was my discovery when I was learning French and my French teacher, a Parisian language graduate, couldn’t tell me how the French people know whether a new noun is masculine or feminine. I’ve often wondered whether the rule might…
