Today I found a very sinister picture of mathematician John Napier (after whom Edinburgh Napier University is named) in this collection of proofs of Pythagoras’s Theorem: files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED0...

Attacked by the Charnwood Borough Council mace at today’s graduation ceremony.

Evidence of @driro.bsky.social’s photography skills on show at Megan Foulkes’s PhD viva celebrations.

Spotify makes up musical genres.

Was reminded today of this email from an editor I once received in response to a manuscript submission.

My sister has a giant photo of Tony Blair saying “hello is it me you are looking for?” in her toilet.

Turns out that Semmelweis, the guy who invented antiseptics, was actually Willie Thorne.