Surrounded by Numbers Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy says that ‘Mathematics is the code that makes sense of our universe.’ Light, which surround us all, travels at 186,282 miles per second.   This is 299,792,458 metres per second.   Usain Bolt, the fastest runner in the world can cover 100 metres in 9.63 seconds. People who gamble on

The binary numeral system, represents numeric values using two symbols: 0 and 1.   Because of its straightforward implementation in digital electronic circuitry, the binary system is used internally by almost all modern computers. In 1937, American George Stibitz, completed a relay-based computer he dubbed the “Model K” (for “Kitchen”, where he had assembled it), which

You may remember reading my blog on the 2nd  Sep, about my little adventure with my tooth.   It turns out that it wasn’t actually my tooth that broke, it was the filling plus part of my tooth. You may also remember that I broke it on a toasted sandwich that my darling wife, had lovingly

What is Pinterest and How Does It Work? Pinterest is a social network that allows users to discover new interests by visually sharing, and by posting/pinning, images or videos to their own or other people’s pinboards Users can either upload images from their computer or pin things they find on the web using the Pinterest

A to Z of Dementia Dementia.   Perhaps when you hear that someone suffers from Dementia you think of the word Demented. Some definitions of Demented are; brainsick, affected with madness or insanity, someone who has gone mad. In our defence the word dementia comes from the Latin, originally meaning “madness”.   It comes from de =