DatablogMathematicsWords you can write on a calculatorIf you were ever bored enough in a maths class to turn a number on your calculator into a word you may have only been scraping the surface. There is much more to this art than meets the eye
I own a Casio fx-85gt plus. It can perform 260 functions in less than a second, it can tell me when I've got a recurring decimal and it has a slide-on protective cover so that the buttons don't get pressed when it's in my bag. Read More...
FilmPete Walker gave British cinema cannibal housewives, homicidal priests and teen pimps - and what did it give him in return? Piles. He reveals all to Will HodgkinsonPete Walker doesn't look like a corrupter of youth. The former film director, who tormented both critics and the moral majority in the late 1960s and 70s with a series of self-financed sex and horror movies, is currently preoccupied with the fact that his rather foolish dog has scampered off somewhere in a panic, quite possibly as a reaction to having his home invaded by a journalist from a liberal newspaper. Read More...
‘I think social media is stupid’… Dorothy Wiggins at home in New York City. Photograph: Maria Spann/The GuardianDorothy Wiggins was devastated when her husband died. But she was determined to embrace life, and quickly found fame when a journalist friend started filming her escapades in New York
by Ammar KaliaIn 2020, three months after his 100th birthday, Dorothy Wiggins’ husband, Guy, died. They had been married for 61 years. “We never fought,” she says. Read More...