“I am a mathematician, and I would like to stand on your roof.” Ron Eglash gives a cool talk about how traditional African villages are built in fractal patterns – and how that is consciously related to the social structure.
Would a world race-walking champion race-walk or run when under danger? From samurai? Enquiring minds wanted to know.
If you missed the memo like me when this came out, this Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip clip is excellent.
Meg, who needs a blog, sends this excellent story about a Surrey family who built a mock-Tudor castle on their agricultural land… and kept it hidden behind haybales. For 4 years. While living in it. Worth reading for the bit about the day the kids' classes were drawing pictures of their homes…