F 1.12: Archive

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Drawing Graphs Correctly →

Click the link above for the Powerpoint presentation on how to draw graphs.

Jun 21st

New Blog →

After testing the tumblr platform throughout the academic year 2009-2010 I’ve now expanded the scope of what I’m doing with it. Blogging will continue, but it’s now relocated to a group blog at http://hlhsscience.tumblr.com/ and years 12 and 13 will now be contributing stories. This should hopefully have the dual effect of increasing the number of interesting things being...

Sep 16th

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Mobile phones and bees: shoddy research helps no... →

Click the link above for an excellent and well-reasoned breakdown of why a recent scare-story suggesting mobile phones could be responsible for current falling bee populations in the US is a load of rubbish (via telegraph.co.uk). It’s important for scientists to gather and analyse as much data as possible, yet the media often reports stories as fact when they have an extremely questionable...

Jun 10th

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Jun 10th

GOOD LUCK!!!

Good luck to all my classes in their forthcoming exams! Remember: Try to answer every question. Even a wild an informed guess may get you a crucial extra mark. Read the questions carefully. Have you answered what they’ve asked you? Check the number of marks per question. If there’s two marks on a question that wants you to explain something, then you should be making a couple of...

May 28th

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Engineering is awesome :)

May 21st

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Pre Release Material for Year 13 →

Click the link above (or click here) to get a copy of the pre-release material for the G495 exam this summer. You will be asked questions relating to the scientific principles and methods described in this paper (interpreting graphs, etc.). Make sure you are extremely familiar with it.

May 10th

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Pre Release Material for Year 12 →

Click the link above (or click here) to get a copy of the pre-release material for the G492 exam this summer. You will be asked questions relating to the scientific principles and methods described in this paper (interpreting graphs, etc.). Make sure you are extremely familiar with it.

May 7th

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Apr 29th

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Apr 19th

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Apr 15th

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Sagan’s famous Pale Blue Dot monologue, wonderfully illustrated.

Apr 12th

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Apr 1st

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Mar 30th

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Mar 30th

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Mar 26th

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Mar 24th

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“Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.”

– Michael Faraday

Mar 23rd

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Mar 22nd

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Mar 22nd

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Physics Revision - Year 11

Over the half term and the next few weeks my year 11 groups should be preparing for their P1b resits. All groups should take a look at the past exam papers on the AQA website. These will illustrate what kind of questions you may be asked, as well as giving you the opportunity to practice completing the exams in the allocated time. They’re available as PDF files on AQA’s website...

Feb 11th

Delays and interruptions

Sorry all; there’s been a dearth of updates here because I’m working on stuff under the hood to improve the user experience. New look to the page coming soon(ish), but it’s been busy at school lately. Hey, I know; let’s mark this terribly unhelpful update message by going back to the web of 1995 and sticking an animated ‘Under construction’ gif in this post. ...

Feb 4th

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io9 Run Down 15 Reasons To Live For The Next 10... →

Dec 31st

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Dec 18th

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Dec 17th

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Octopodes use coconut shells as portable shelters “Octopuses have been observed carrying coconut shells in what researchers claim is the first recorded example of tool use in invertebrates. There is a growing record of tool use in animals and birds, from musical “instruments” made by orang-utans to sponges used by dolphins to dislodge prey from sand. Now veined octopuses,...

Dec 15th

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Dec 14th

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Mega-flood filled the Mediterranean in months →

science: This I didn’t know: almost 6 million years ago, the strait of Gibraltar (or its precursor) closed shut, and the Mediterranean sea evaporated, leaving the entire area a dry basin. About 5.3 million years ago, tectonic activity allowed water from the Atlantic Ocean to trickle down into the Mediterranean basin, slowly carving out a channel. At some point, scientists now believe, the...

Dec 14th

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