A history of the world in one statistical graph
When people say Maths is boring or it has little or no application if you aren’t an engineer or a ‘geek’, then I like to point to applications like this from Gapminder: In a single, beautiful chart, it shows how the countries of the world have developed in both health and wealth over the last [...]
How happy are our children?
UNICEF are about to launch a follow up to their 2007 report that rated children in the UK as the unhappiest in the world’s rich economies. Their follow up report for 2013 has been completed and the good news is that the UK is now comfortably mid-table. The Netherlands and Nordic countries continue to top [...]
WebRTC comes to Tutorhub
From day one, Jiva Technology has been both a real time and an open standards house. There are times when that felt like we were swimming in front of a wave, not on the crest of it, but just the same, it always felt like the right thing to do. Sometimes, “doing it right” is [...]
Lazy maths from the Head Teacher
I see that in a recent speech on immigration, the Prime Minister got himself into trouble with what can only be described as a rather lazy approach to Maths. It could also be described as a self-serving attempt to manipulate the numbers to support a blatantly incorrect view and it’s the reason why we should [...]