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Essays 2020 onwards
2022 Jan to July
410 - e-bikes - or not
409 2024 Snippets
2022 Jan to July
408 Winter Snippets
407 - Autumn Snippets
406 - RAAC and Ruin 2
405 - Summer Snippets
404 - BEVs revisited
403 - Mental health at university
402 - Spring Snippets
401 - Covid 2023
400 - Climate change action, leading to Trains
399 - Early Snippets 2023
2022 Jan to July
398 - Wealth and Advantage
397 - We are the Problem
396 - Janus words
395 - Autumn Snippets
394 - Trolling
393 - Football is a rotten game
392 - Wellness revisited
391 - Covid late 2022
390 - the Four Horsemen
389 - Summer Snippets 22
2022 Jan to July
388 - Summer Snippets 22
388.1 Passive Housing revisited
388.2 Gun Control
388.3 Benefits of Brexit
388.4 Food security - Milk
388.5 The Party of Tax and Spend
387 - Roe vs Wade rides again
386 - Increasing energy costs
385 - Ukraine asides
384 - Spring Snippets 2
383- Covid in 2022
382 - the EPC
381 - Freedom vs Security
380 - New Year Snippets
380.1 War in Ukraine
380.2 Classes of number
380.3 Graphene revisited
379 - Covid in January
2021 July to October
369 - Biomass
368 - CO₂ is a b(u)y-product
367 - Energy security
366 - Wealth Tax
365 - What is Research?
364 - Renting is throwing money away
363 - Covid in Autumn 2021
362 - September snippets
362.1 Elections Bill, 2021
362.2 Non-fungicide
361 - Are EV batteries not green?
360 - Planting trees
359 - Levelling - life costs
358 - Climate Crisis
357 - Afghanistan
356 - Levelling - gender
355 - Covid in July
354 - Kids become an avoidable risk
353 - July snippets
353.1 E-scooters
353.2 Global Risk Report
353.3 Zero-sum
2021 Oct to Dec
370 - COP26
371 - a small residence
372 - corruption / uoıʇdnɹɹoɔ
373 - Year-end snippets (6)
373.1 More on future transport
373.2 the Sukskei river
373.3 AMOC and the Fram Strait
373.4 Roe v. Wade
373.5 Are we short of water?
373.6 Driving risk perceptions
373.7 Shades of truth
374 - War, terrorism, reprisal
375 - choices of transport
376 - Migration rides again
377 - Covid in Winter 2021/2
378 - Rethinking normailty
2021
352 Unicode 2, or Symbols we don't use
351 - Covid in June
350 - Whinging
349 - Dog eat dog
348 - June snippets
348.1 Castles in the air
348.2 Retention in teaching
348.3 Heat dome
347 - Dementia
346 - Chasing disk errors
345 - Decryptocurrency
344 - May snippets
344.1Covid in May
344.2 Podcasts
344.3 the Queen's Speech
343 - Dumb Smart Meters
342 - Fewer cows
341 - April Snippets
341.1 Conflict ⇐ unmet needs
341.2 Dinosaurs make up fossil fuels
341.3 Food Waste
340 - Relative Risk 2
339 - Covid in April
338 - March Snippets 2
337 - Covid in Feb & March
336- Graphene
335 - Winter Snippets
334 - Platform Shoves
333 - Genetic Coding
332 - Covid in January
2020 July to Dec
331 - late snippets
330 - Batteries
329 - Logical Fallacies
328 - Vaccine progress
327 - Looking ahead
326 - QE3
325 - Covid in December
324 - Alerts and Compliance
323 - Where do we go from here?
322- Covid in November
321 - Levelling up, levelling off
320 - Use of Number
319 - Boris and hot air; offshore wind farms
318 - Covid in October
317 - Covid vs Influenza
316 - Covid in September
315 - Dissatisfied with Democracy
314 - Migration 2020
313 - Snippets
312 - School post-lockdown
311 - Covid in August
2020 Jan to July
310 - Reducing population
309 - What a brick
308 - Culture Cancellation
307 - No2 High Street
306 - Covid in July
305 - Risk
304 - Covid Disparities
303 - Covid in June
302 - A nudge is as good as a wink
301 - Asterisk in Britain
300 - Covid in May
299 - Covid in April
298 - Covid Cost Consequences
297 - Transparency
296 - Mental Health
295 - Long-Term Distancing
294 - Horrid Paint
293 - Covid-19 charts
292 - Numeracy needed
291 - Effects of an Outbreak
290 - 15 minutes access
289 - Fishing vs Finance
Essays since China
2019
288 - Email Carbon
287 - Political Truth
286 - 1632 series
285 - Is teaching worth it?
284 - Pro Rogue
283 - C0₂, Cement and Concrete
282 - C0₂ sources
281 - Age grading 2
280 - Denialism
279 - Sca, Fell and Pike
278 - Personal Data
277 - Is capitalism a bad thing?
276 - pros and cons of Brexit
275 - Tenses in English
274 - Dangerous Fashion
273 - Populism
272 - Diabetes 3
271 - Podcasts or not
270 - Generation Rent
269 - Whither the phone?
2018 Sep to Dec
268 - Poverty in Britain
267 - Trust
266 - Political Corruption
265 - Referendum, referenda
264 - How to change a habit
263 - Age-grading
262 - Turning CO₂ back into fuel
261 - Mental Health
260 - When the data isn’t good enough
259 - Too Much Finance
258 - the Resource Curse
257 - Matters of Opinion
256 - Tosspottery
255 - Bad News Sells Newspapers
2018 Jan to Aug
254 - Words I want to know
253 - Gardening Enjoyment - or not.
252 - Why I hate the Phone 2
251 - unicode fun
249 - British Social Attitudes 1 - Climate Change
248 - the High Street, No1
247- Political Distrust
246 - Happiness
245 - Essential communications
244 - Universal Basic Income
243 - Smart meters
242 - Plastic Waste Revisited 2
2017 2nd half
225 - A new Dark Age?
226 - A new Dark Age, Part 2
227 - the Learning Business
228 - Bracken Control
229 - Communication Imperfect
230 - Communication 2: Context
231 - Is education worthwhile?
232 - Causation
233 - Phishing
234 - the Cost of Tertiary
235 - Hypocrisy, Cynicism, etc
236 - What is Data Quality?
237 - Smell the Food
238 - True Grit
239 - The current Irish Question
240 - More population issues
241 - the Middle Class
2017 1st half
213 - Faking It
214 - Inbox Zero
215 - Commuting
216 - Damned lies and statistics
217 - South China Sea
218 - Solar panels
219 - combination locks
220 - Bath vs Shower
221 - House Prices
222 - Diesel is Bad
223 - Moving House
224 - Whit Friday Marches
2016 2nd half
196 - Tall trees need water
197 - Hyphens and dashes
198 - How to catch a lion
199 - The Press is the Enemy
200 - Zombie Ideas
201 - Democracy fail
202 - Disgust, discussed
203 - Technological revolution
204 - Addiction to Exercise
205 - Churnalism
206 - Punctuation - Apostrophes
207 - US democracy
208 - Population Issues
209 - Infrastructure - transport
210 - the Business Vote
211 - 2008 financial crisis
212 - Choices
2016 1st half
184 - Drown-proofing
185 - Free Speech - gone?
186 - Going Down
187 - Stupidity
188 - The End of an Era?
189 - US election turnout
190 - Diabetes 2
191 - Why do we refuse to do maths?
192 - Going a bit faster in the Hills
193 - Degree Classes
194 - What price ebooks?
195 - Is copyright wrong?
2015 2nd half
172 - English articles
173 - UK Migration
174 - UK Illegal Immigration
175 - More on Migration
176 - Diabetes
177 - Pollution Again
178 - English negatives
179 - What is electricity?
180 - Dementia
181 - Grammar School
182 - Landlines to go
183 - Moon-based festivals
2015 1st half
150 - Recycling
151 - Devolution
152 - Retyred
153 - Digital Newspaper
154 - Apolitical Geography
155 - Unfamiliar Peninsulas
156 - Speed vs Safety
157 - Future vehicles - bikes
158 - Future vehicles - cars
159 - Future vehicles - fuels
160 - Alternative Internal Combustion
161 - Alternatives to Internal Combustion
162 - Vehicle Efficiencies
163 - Exercise may be good for you
164 - !! Using tables in webpages
165 - Shopping deceit
166 - Dress Sizes
167 -Judgment Day Pt 2, the election
168 - Judgment Day Pt 1
169 - Electric motors
170 - Timeliness
171 - Human Rights
2014 2nd half
135 - the Hills of Qingdao
136 – Catalysis
137 - Back to Britain
138 - Upgrading the computer
139 - PRC / UK relative costs
140 - Return on investment
141 - Vocabulary
142 - the running club
143 - the NEw locality
144 Alex Nunns - On health care
145 - the Gower Peninsula
146 - a Bucket List
147 - the Brass Band
148 - Rhetorical Language
149 - A Need for Christmas
2014 1st half
122 - A day at the organ
123 - Readablility
124 - Books on Running
125 - Four letter words - the Urban Legend
126 - British? Me? Apparently not.
127 - Zombium
128 - The English Abroad
129 - A Cold Story
130 - I, Robot
131 - Internet Weather
132 - Magnetism
133 - The Five Year Rule
134 - 35th May
Essays from China
2007 Essays
01 - The Decision to leave Britain
02 - ID Cards
03 - Eating Grass makes you stupid
04 - 4-letter Words
05 - The Process of Moving
06 - Bumping Races
07 - Ineffective Invective
08 - Week 0: Arrival
09 - Language 1
10 - Heat and Humidity
11 - Plastic Bags get everywhere
12 - Week 3: language 2
13 - isn’t what I thought it was
14 - Xi’an, the immediate locale
15 - Wine into Water
16 - The English Club
17 - The City Wall Race
18 - A Chinese Wedding
19 - Man or Mouse?
2008 Essays
20 - Some Chinese Geography
21 - Interruptions
22 - What is safe?
23 - Running Factors
24 - A visit to Spa
25 - Chinese New Year
26 - The Warriors
27 - Earthquake
28 - The Leak
29 - Traffic
30 - Telephones and why I hate them
31 - ..and the point is? Perhaps Graduation
32 - Sports Day (not)
33 - Censorship
34 - Cleaning the Flat
35 - The News
36 - The Lads’ Weekend
37 - Intellectual Property
2010 Essays
48 - Four letter word rides alone
49 - Rising Water levels
50 - A Trip to Macao
52 - Ancestor worship
51 - Language 3
53 - Life in ZQ
54 - Short-term targets
x 55 - Issues of Face
56 - !! Un petit, d’un petit
57 - Chinese TV
58 - A Bit of PT
59 - Looking Both Ways
60 - Visiting Britain
61 - Flight Experience
62 - Altogether a different Hash
63 - On Hydration
64 - The Sock Monster
65 - Letters to and from China
66 - A Trail Run
67 - To Ikea
68 - Flocking
69 - Behaviour - what is proper?
70 - Into the hills
2011 Essays
71 - Feeling Cold
72 - Linear Thinking
74 - Overheard
73 - Ganbei
75 - Ningbo
76 - Qingdao
77 - A Race to get Married
2012 1st half
78 - Post Part Umm
79 - Planetary Conjunctions
80 - The Office 1
81 - Observed at school
82 - What’s it Worth?
83 - Why buy education?
84 - Measures of Success
85 - when the ordure strikes the rotating aerator
86 - Opportunity & Disaster
87 - Hashing in Laoshan
88 - Honesty, integrity, morals, etc
2012 2nd half
89 - Workyticket
90 - Rules, gamesmanship & reportage
91—What is an illegal immigrant?
92—New car names
93 - Consideration
94—Wo is I
95 Cathy Song - I fought for 18 years..
96—What were you doing when..?
97—The Wakhjir Pass and Time Zones
98—The Mindset List
99 —The Union Flag
100 - Peak Oil
101- Hashing Best Practice
2013 Essays
102 - Working in Beijing
103—Beijing Geography
104 - Air Quality Issues
105—Calling the shots
106 - More on pollution
107 - chasing corrupt files
108 Spider Robinson - Pandora’s Last Gift
109 - Temple of Heaven
110 - Mondegreens
111 - Spoonerisms
112 - Going to the Gym
113 - Heart rates
114 - Water, water and not a drop to drink
115 - Christmas comes early this year
116 - Dynastic Change
117 Draft Mots Guesses
118 - iPhry Behaviour
120 - Toilets
119 - The Office 2
121 - Ocean World
The Filthy Comma
List of Jessie’s essays
2018
tfc#72 Sorry not sorry
tfc#71 The kindness of strangers
tfc#71 Reproductively, I’m more of a Gaza
2017
tfc#70 to do with a fake P45
tfc#69 Swear on the Heron
tfc#68 'Dearer than eye-sight'
tfc#67 Bing-bong!
tfc#66 Chinese Whispers
tfc#65 Jam Tomorrow
2016
thefilthycomma #64
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thefilthycomma #62
Brexit, pursued by a bear
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2015
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2014
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2013
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2012
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2011
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The Nail Girl #00
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Choosing a Course
Choosing 2: Lists
The Personal Statement, or PS.
References
Oxbridge
Maths
Lists
Going to North America
Finance, Accounting, Business, & Management
Engineering
Architecture
Maths
Maths Section - General
Maths section - General
Comment on British vs Chinese syllabuses
Maths mistakes
Why study arithmetic
Lower School
General
Introduction
Year Eight content
Arithmetic skills
Revision
Trees
Numeracy
Speedy multiplication
Checking
Conversions
Factors, general
Factors 1
HCF
LCM
LCM & HCF together
Precision
Precision 1
Precision 2
Squares: theory
Squares ...5
The Next Square
Other Squares
Square Roots
Negatives and Subtraction
Standard Form 1
Standard form 2
Std Fm & d.p.1
Std Fm & d.p.2
Number Investigations
Numeracy Revision
More Revision
Son of More Revision
More Revision Rides Again
End of year A
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Percentages
Fractions 1
Arithmetic with Fractions
Bases
Base Fundamentals
Base Addition
Base Multiplication
Units and Measures
Ratio and Proportion
Sequences
Algebra
Algebra Vocab
Brackets Ex (90)
Brackets Notes
Expansions 1
Expansion, Rev
Factorisation of Quadratics
Series expansions – the binomial theorem
Matrix principles
Matrices
Set Theory 1
Set Theory 2
Algebra & Numeracy
Algebra & Numeracy 2
Formulae
Geometry
Pythagoras’ Theorem
GCSE: Bearings
GCSE: Bearings 2
Sketching Straight Lines
Pairs of straight Lines
Quadrilaterals
Extension Work
End of term and fun (7)
What is Two and Two?
Two and Two
Piles of Rice
Area = Perimeter
A Christmas Message - modelling for fun
Hexaflexagons
Number Chains
Climate change (4)
More trees in the UK
Transport
Covid 2022
CO2
Waste Water
Borderline Statistics
Saving time and fuel
Metering
Find the Number
Roman Numerals
Horrible paint
Going to Cambridge
in whom we trust
Natural Units
More Weird units
More Weird Units Ride Again
Referendums
Traveller’s Arithmetic
Pollution
Rabbits
Long Decimal Reciprocals
Reasonable Questions
Running and Walking
Perfect Numbers
Index: Xⁿ starts with n
Shopping
Sewage sludge
Stopping
Filling the tank
Vaccine effectiveness
Tiling the Bathroom
Time zones, sunset, etc.
Trams and Runners
Trespass of your social distancing bubble
Viruses are very small
Upper Middle School - athletics (Mech)
the N-dimensional cube
Logs: Who cares?
a^b^c explored
Fuel bills
Extra over
Further Pure at BSB
Advanced Differentiation
Hyperbolics
FPM 20130213 [1]
FPM 20120216 [2]
FPM 20120216 [3]
FPM 20130301 [4]
FPM 20130301 [5]
FPM 20130301 [6]
FPM Questions [7]
FPM Rates of Change [8]
Chinese New (Maths) Year
FPM Rates of Change 9
Sixth Form Pure
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Sixth Form
Mathematical Modelling
Think you can do logs?
Topics: Pure
Algebra Basics
Series at A-level
Series Expansions using the Binomial Theorem
More on Series, Series 3
Related Equations
Roots of Equations
Calculus
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Squares advanced
Differentiation
Integration 1
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x the Simple Stuff
General - Statistics
Series Expansions using the Binomial Theorem
Expectation & Variance
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Normal Distribution
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t and Normal Distributions
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Statistics Papers
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S1 MEI The Lower School
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Lower Sixth
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Nov 2008 - retest
Nov 2008 Stats
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Further Maths
Torque
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Inertia 1 - rectangles
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Inertia Questions
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Dimensional Analysis 1
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Groups, Rings and Fields
Vector Spaces !!!!!!
FM Revision
FM Revision 1 !!!!
x FM Revision 1 copy
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FM Revision 3
x FM Revision 4 (Mixed) copy
FM Revision 4 !!! - Mixed
FM Revision 5
FM Mech Nov 2008
Revision papers
Syllabi, Revision Exercises
DJS C1.3 C1.4
Specific topics
P2 20021009 surds etc
P2 Surds & logs 20020924
P2 Expansions 20021121
C1 sample A
AS Revision 1
AS Revision 2
AS Revision 3
AS Revision 4
C4 20060302
C4 20060306
Practice Paper Nov 2008
C4 EDEXCEL STYLE 20130221
C4 EDEXCEL STYLE 20130226
Finance and Science
The Rule of 72
Rockets and Satellites
May you live in Interesting Times
Pensions and Proverbs
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that Sinking Feeling
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Coronavirus (Y10+)
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What is management?
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