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Africa stats

By 6000 | 6000 | February 3, 2012

Bit short of time today, so here’s a photo of the front cover of a calendar from KPMG. 60% of world cocoa production, 20% of global gold production and shedloads of shale gas. What’s not to like? (apart perhaps for that 3% of global GDP figure…)

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Who’s Your Favourite?

By 6000 | 6000 | January 31, 2012

It’s a silly question for any parent dad to ask, but Maddie’s daddy just had to ask it, didn’t he? Just for the record, I have never asked either of my kids this. The answer would probably be too depressing or would put me (and them) in a very dangerous situation at home. Safety first…

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Neutron Star Facts

By 6000 | 6000 | January 30, 2012

I love science, me. But I struggled to get my head around this particular bunch of facts about Neutron Stars, which I happened across. As you do. A neutron star is so dense that one teaspoon (5 millilitres) of its material would have a mass over 5.5×1012 kg, (5 500 000 000 000 kg) about 900 times the [...]

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Bistro vs Brasserie

By 6000 | 6000 | January 27, 2012

We had a really good MBCC meal out at Societi Brasserie in Tokai last night, where the Tall Accountant poured himself this particularly spectacular glass of beer. I would particularly recommend their mackerel pâte with spicy chutney and the wonderfully-cooked filet au poivre. One question that did arise, however, was around the difference between a Bistro and a Brasserie, given that [...]

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