My runner beans have been attacked constantly throughout summer. At first it was just the tips of the runners being nibbled off, then the baby bean pods were chewed, and I suspect that the culprits are also responsible for the missing leaves and fruit from my strawberries too. When watering I looked up the top…
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S3 E11: Rotational Inertia
Compared to the 2020 April lockdown, I’ve found it more difficult to get rolling with the online learning. I think that I’m in the rhythm now, it just took a bit more effort than I was expecting, like rotational inertia. Context: rotational inertia is a measurement of how difficult it is to either begin an…
Sticky!
Its about time that I made another post, so today I’m introducing the resident stick insect, affectionately known as Sticky.
Isolation day 13: Memes
I don’t have a topic to talk about today so I thought I’d just make a post sharing some fun science memes that I have used while teaching, broken down by subject. Chemistry Biology Physics I will be updating this post if I find more memes.
Isolation day 12: Patterns of inheritance
This post follows on from a previous post, Isolation day 3: School Holidays, so I recommend reading that post if you are unfamiliar with how proteins are sequenced and produced in cells. In that post I introduced the terms gene, allele, dominant and recessive and how this relates to the expression traits in an organism….
Isolation day 3: School Holidays
In New Zealand the school holidays were pushed forward by two weeks so that they would fall completely within the four week Level 4 coronavirus response. Although they technically don’t begin until Monday the 30th, I consider that they have, as of 9.30am on Saturday the 28th of March, already begun. Today my day began…
Eclectic Hobbies 