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I'm happy watching 'The Simpsons' at home.
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Simpsons
The Simpsons
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Mathematicians always like a deceptively difficult problem.
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Mathematicians
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Libel law was developed to protect the reputations of individuals, not corporations.
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Corporations
Libel
Reputations
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The worlds of maths and science have a long history of naming important objects after people.
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Objects
Long History
Maths
Naming
Worlds
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I don't want to write books that are intellectually staggering if nobody's going to read them.
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Staggering
Intellectually
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Indeed, it is a proven mathematical theorem that a doughnut is topologically distinct from a sphere.
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Doughnut
Mathematical
Proven
Distinct
Sphere
Theorem
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Scientists aren't necessarily good communicators, because they aren't trained to be good communicators.
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Communicators
Scientists
Trained
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There is clearly something right about 7, because other numbers fail to resonate with us in quite the same way.
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Resonate
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If you've written something that you believe is true, and if you can afford to defend it, then you've got to defend it.
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Defend
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What shocks me is people who have no expertise championing a view that runs counter to the mainstream scientific consensus.
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Consensus
Expertise
Mainstream
Me People Who
Me View People
Counter
Championing
View Me People
Runs
Scientific
Shocks
View
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Without doubt, the most mathematically sophisticated television show in the history of primetime broadcasting is 'The Simpsons'.
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Broadcasting
Sophisticated
Mathematically
Simpsons
Television Show
The Simpsons
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Indeed, nobody is close to developing a general formula that predicts the number flips required for any given number of pancakes.
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Developing
Pancakes
Flips
Required
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I'm fairly unemotional and tend not to get too excited when things go well and I tend not to get too depressed when they go badly.
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Fairly
Badly
Depressed
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You don't have to be a genius mathematician to have a career in cyber security, but it certainly helps to be a strong mathematician.
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Cyber
Mathematician
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People back down because the libel system is so utterly hostile to journalists, bloggers, scientists. The smart thing is not to fight.
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Bloggers
Hostile
Libel
Journalists
Scientists
Utterly
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Romantics might like to think of themselves as being composed of stardust. Cynics might prefer to think of themselves as nuclear waste.
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Science
Nuclear
Thinking
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High street homeopaths, who typically do not have any serious medical training, are allowed to treat you and me for almost any condition.
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Condition
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The age of the universe is not just 'a guess', but rather it is a carefully measured number that is now known to a high degree of accuracy.
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Accuracy
Carefully
Measured
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The fact that we have 7 days of the week can be traced to the Babylonian and Jewish civilisations, with the first documented reference dating to 600BC.
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Dating
Documented
Reference
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Bearing in mind that homeopathic remedies are generally so diluted that they contain no active remedy, it seems obvious they can be nothing more than placebos.
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Obvious
Bearing
Contain
Diluted
Remedies
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Topologists are not concerned with angles and lengths, which are clearly altered by stretching the rubber sheet, but they do care about more fundamental properties.
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Altered
Concerned
Rubber
Stretching
Angles
Clearly
Fundamental
Properties
Sheet
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Sunspots are hubs of intense magnetic activity and they trigger solar flares that launch charged particles, X-rays, ultraviolet radiation and radio waves at the Earth.
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Intense
Magnetic
Particles
Radiation
Charged
Launch
Solar
Trigger
Waves
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All I am saying is that if you want to answer a question, then we need to examine and weigh up the evidence. To me, that's not dogmatic that's just... what else would you do?
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Examine
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If someone feels they're being maliciously treated, then they should sue for libel. And if someone is malicious, if they are reckless, they will have no defence in law at all.
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Defence
Libel
Malicious
Reckless
Sue
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In fact, scientific results are a careful attempt to objectively measure reality, and although they may be refined over time, they are always our best hope of getting at the truth.
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Refined
Attempt
Measure
Objectively
Scientific
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Cern's colliders usually shut down for a winter break, because the cost of electricity increases as the temperature drops and the Swiss turn on their heaters and tuck into their fondue.
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Electricity
Swiss
Temperature
Winter
Drops
Increases
Tuck
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I start 'The Code Book' with the story of Mary Queen of Scots and the Babington Plot, which was foiled when Mary's enciphered messages fell into the hands of Elizabeth I's codebreakers.
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Book
Code
Hands
Mary
Messages
Plot
Elizabeth
Queen
Start
Story
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All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable.
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Men
Brain
Couple
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The truth is that many of the writers of 'The Simpsons' are deeply in love with numbers, and their ultimate desire is to drip-feed morsels of mathematics into the subconscious minds of viewers.
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Subconscious
Viewers
Simpsons
The Simpsons
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Many of the worst cases that triggered the campaign for libel reform involved corporations suing critics, so these particular sections of the bill are vital to reduce future abuses of libel law.
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Abuse
Cases
Corporations
Critics
Libel
Sections
Suing
Reduce
Vital
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When I was finishing my PhD, I could just see people who were a bit quicker and brighter and smarter than me and I thought, 'well they are the people who are going to make the great discoveries.'
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Brighter
Finishing
Smarter
Great Me People
Discoveries
Phd
Quicker
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Roughly 65% of American households owned a video recorder by 1989, when 'The Simpsons' was launched. This meant that fans could watch episodes several times and pause a scene when they had spotted something curious.
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Curious
Episodes
Households
Owned
Pause
Recorder
Roughly
Simpsons
The Simpsons
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Nobody wants to get rid of the libel laws, but we want them to be fairer. If we drove down the costs you might end up with more people suing. The only people who can afford it now are the rich and the giant corporations.
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Corporations
Libel
Suing
Fairer
Giant
More People
Rid
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The only consolation is that homeopathy can only be practised on animals by a fully trained vet or under the supervision of one, because it is forbidden for the average high street homeopath to treat animals on their own.
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Consolation
Forbidden
Supervision
Trained
Vet
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Reviewing good puzzle books is frustrating, because you get to page one of the introduction, find a curious puzzle, become engrossed for 20 minutes, miss your stop and then fail to get home in time to say goodnight to the kids.
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Curious
Frustrating
Goodnight
Introduction
Minutes
Time Good Home
Books
Miss
Fail
Page
Reviewing
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One of the common responses to criticism of psychics is to suggest that even if their powers are illusory, there is no harm done. After all, the audience seem to enjoy the show and Sally and the theatres certainly enjoy the profits.
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Criticism
Harm
Illusory
Powers
Profits
Responses
Sally
Suggest
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One scientist will interpret data one way, another in another way. One scientist may feel that an experiment is valid, another feels it's invalid. That's why scientists have discussions and put forward their opinions in conferences and papers.
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Another Way
Conferences
Data
Feels
Papers
Scientist
Why
Discussions
Experiment
Forward
Way Feel Will
Interpret
Invalid
Opinions
Valid
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In my case, I estimate that the members of the British Chiropractic Association have an annual turnover of £100m, and the BCA decided to sue me personally. I was very close to backing down and apologising for an article that was fair and accurate.
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Accurate
Association
British
Decided
Members
Turnover
Annual
Article
Backing
Case
Close
Estimate
Fair
Personally
Sue
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Most of all, a good maths education encourages students to embrace difficult problems, not shy away from them. In my opinion, the problem is that most UK secondary schools don't stretch good mathematicians and therefore fail to turn them into excellent mathematicians.
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Education
Difficult
Embrace
Excellent
Opinion
Problem
Shy
Fail
In My Opinion
Mathematicians
Schools
Secondary
Stretch
Therefore
Uk
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We are 13.7 billion light-years from the edge of the observable universe, That's a good estimate with well-defined error bars, Scientists say it's true, but acknowledge that it may be refined, And with the available information, I predict that I will always be with you.
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Errors
Light
Years
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You might think that modern chiropractors restrict themselves to treating back problems, but in fact they still possess some quite wacky ideas. The fundamentalists argue that they can cure anything. And even the more moderate chiropractors have ideas above their station.
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Wacky
Cure
Fundamentalists
Moderate
Possess
Restrict
Treating
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Part of the problem is that if anybody has a gut reaction about an issue, they can go online and have it backed up. That said, they can also find support for their ideas in the mainstream media - because when the mainstream media gives a so-called balanced view, it's often misleading.
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Balanced
Ideas
Mainstream
Mainstream Media
Media
Online
Problem
Said
Support
Also
Anybody
Backed
Part
Often
Gives
Gut
Issue
Misleading
Reaction
So-Called
View
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As soon as the idea of the Big Bang was proposed in the 1920s, astronomers set about trying to work out when the bang happened. Initial estimates were, not surprisingly, wildly inaccurate, but by the 1980s it was known that the universe was 15 billion years old, give or take 5 billion years.
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Universe
Work Out
Bang
Big Bang
Billion
Estimates
Inaccurate
Initial
Proposed
Soon
Surprisingly
Wildly
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When I attended a forum on libel reform at the British Academy in 2011, 20 figures ranging from law professors to leading libel law firm, Carter Ruck, from MPs to free speech groups, discussed the issue of corporations. There was unanimous agreement that there needed to be restrictions on the right of corporations to sue in libel.
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Agreement
Carter
Corporations
Figures
Free Speech
Libel
Professors
Reform
Attended
Discussed
Forum
Law Firm
Restrictions
Sue
Unanimous
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In 2001, a systematic review of five studies revealed that roughly half of all chiropractic patients experience temporary adverse effects, such as pain, numbness, stiffness, dizziness and headaches. These are relatively minor effects, but the frequency is very high, and this has to be weighed against the limited benefit offered by chiropractors.
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Adverse
Effects
Frequency
Systematic
Temporary
Headaches
Minor
Patients
Relatively
Revealed
Review
Roughly
Studies
Weighed
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What seems certain is that Pythagoras developed the idea of mathematical logic. He realized that numbers exist independently of the tangible world and therefore their study was untainted by inaccuracies of perception. This meant he could discover truths which were independent of opinion of prejudice and which were more absolute than any previous knowledge.
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Ideas
Independent
Mathematical Logic
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