A physics professor was telling me yesterday that her daughter was having trouble understanding real and virtual images formed by lenses.  That was until she showed her a real image being formed on a sheet of paper by a (spectacle?) lens.[1]  The curriculum (which you all must follow or you will be sent to the salt mines!) only included ray tracing.

And this was at a “good” school.  It seems that our teachers are being frustrated by the production of all these “Jobs for Little Stalins” (of which Britain has so many) that our educational bureaucracy has contrived over the years.
[1] I have had to make a correction here: at first I thought the teacher made a five-minute “Great Escape” from the jam-packed curriculum, and did the demonstration.

It takes me a long time to write an article, and I’ve started working on one.  Too much in one day, though, and I find that Cerebrum meum est fatiga-tum.
So for the meantime I will show you these exam answers that were emailed me by a friend.








That’s not using an example.  Zero marks!

Autism finding could lead to simple urine test for the condition

Study suggests that children with autism have a different chemical fingerprint in their urine

So says a news release from Imperial College, London, England.

The researchers examined urine samples collected by the University of Southern Australia from 3–9 year old children displaying Autism Spectrum Disorder, their unaffected siblings, and a control group from the same range, along with another control group collected by the Swiss Tropical Institute.

The Solenodon, 76-million-year-old badass of the natural world, must be saved

So says Lucy Jones, the Telegraph's Culture Blogs Editor, who normally writes about popular culture and aesthetics, specialising in music, film and fashion. But she puts it much better than I could.

Autism link with migrant parents, study finds

A study carried out at St George's Hospital, London, suggests that the incidence of Autism in children of parents who have moved to Britain from outside Europe is much higher.  However, this is not found in children from the same ethnic groups whose parents were born here, which would eliminate ethnicity as a factor.

Read more about it at the link above.