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Which animal has the longest tail?

I’m pretty fond of doing the Saturday quiz in the Adelaide newspaper, though I never keep score. I mean, who knows who won the Olympic backstroke in 1978? That was before I was born! I can’t let that drag down my credit rating, you know. Anyway, last week...

Happy Pi Day!

Hooray, it’s Friday Pi Day! Today, 22 July, is Pi Approximation Day – 22/7 being a sweet close-to value for that wonderful mathematical constant. Celebrate by eating pie, either for dinner or dessert (or both!) and indulging in a pint of your favourite...

The white whale, sighted, in pursuit

The white whale has been sighted off the starboard bow, and I’m hard on its trail. All hands to decks, no time for telling tales! Something in me must chase that whale, it haunts me… It has stolen from me, swallowed in its vast maw, some essential element...