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Conversation with Chat GPT Can you interpret this real life scenario in the form of Calculus. We are on the pavement of a street in Cambridge, England, the year is 1666, there is a lady in a white dress thinking about crossing the road. The road is cobbled but there is a thick layer of … Read more

So in today’s edition of WTF I’ve just seen that there is a Russian ship with 20,000 tonnes of explosives (ammonium nitrate) at anchor off the Kent coast. Remembering that there is a World War 2 US munitions ship, SS Montgomery, sunk just off Sheerness and Southend I thought I’d investigate blast radii. Turns out that … Read more

Whilst fiddling about trying to work out why a small group of men are being allowed to bring us to the brink of World War 3, I thought I’d look into the origins of the atom bomb and came upon this fascinating vignette. I was surprised that an acutely aware scientist such as Einstein would … Read more