Ben Sparks
@sparksmaths.bsky.social
Mathematician, Musician, Speaker, Teacher. Freelance - MEI - Uni of Bath
Working with @Numberphile @MathsInspiratn @TMiPUK and on YouTube @SparksMaths
Get in touch and/or book me for a maths talk or workshop:
www.bensparks.co.uk
Working with @Numberphile @MathsInspiratn @TMiPUK and on YouTube @SparksMaths
Get in touch and/or book me for a maths talk or workshop:
www.bensparks.co.uk
I vaguely remember it... when was it set?
I get the feeling that one of the biggest issues was grasping the direction of the reaction at C (which, now I've convinced myself, feels obvious, but for a long time was not obvious to me)
I get the feeling that one of the biggest issues was grasping the direction of the reaction at C (which, now I've convinced myself, feels obvious, but for a long time was not obvious to me)
November 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I vaguely remember it... when was it set?
I get the feeling that one of the biggest issues was grasping the direction of the reaction at C (which, now I've convinced myself, feels obvious, but for a long time was not obvious to me)
I get the feeling that one of the biggest issues was grasping the direction of the reaction at C (which, now I've convinced myself, feels obvious, but for a long time was not obvious to me)
Ouch. Always awkward. Fingers crossed it resolves naturally, but if you're still there after 15 mins I would probably go home and immediately send them a normal invoice (with a note etc).
November 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Ouch. Always awkward. Fingers crossed it resolves naturally, but if you're still there after 15 mins I would probably go home and immediately send them a normal invoice (with a note etc).
The list of speakers that work on @robeastaway.bsky.social 's @mathsinspiration.bsky.social shows is a pretty useful list of quality speakers. mathsinspiration.com/maths-speake...
Maths Inspiration - Maths Speakers - Rob Eastaway, Matt Parker
The list of speakers and MC's that perform in Maths Inspiration
mathsinspiration.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The list of speakers that work on @robeastaway.bsky.social 's @mathsinspiration.bsky.social shows is a pretty useful list of quality speakers. mathsinspiration.com/maths-speake...
Lovely stuff David, thanks for sharing this again. You've made me upgrade my vocabulary to include "area-proportional Venn diagrams". Better late than never!
September 30, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Lovely stuff David, thanks for sharing this again. You've made me upgrade my vocabulary to include "area-proportional Venn diagrams". Better late than never!
Sadly no on the puzzle, and happily yes on getting home. At 0140.
September 4, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Sadly no on the puzzle, and happily yes on getting home. At 0140.
Feel like a chump for even trying to use public transport. If the 0015 service does arrive I will still have spent 2hrs 20mins of my day standing on tarmac looking expectantly down the road for overdue and apparently ghostly bus services, while paying for the privilege.
September 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Feel like a chump for even trying to use public transport. If the 0015 service does arrive I will still have spent 2hrs 20mins of my day standing on tarmac looking expectantly down the road for overdue and apparently ghostly bus services, while paying for the privilege.
Then at Bristol Airport the A4 Air Decker 2330 service simply didn't show up (I was waiting from 2300 or so). Currently still waiting, angry, hoping a 0015 bus might arrive to take me home, maybe.
September 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Then at Bristol Airport the A4 Air Decker 2330 service simply didn't show up (I was waiting from 2300 or so). Currently still waiting, angry, hoping a 0015 bus might arrive to take me home, maybe.
Also in Glasgow, at 1755, I waited 45 mins for a no. 500 Airport Express service (they run every 10-12 mins apparently). Digital signs pronounced the imminent arrival of 3 500 buses in this time. None showed up (until 1840).
September 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Also in Glasgow, at 1755, I waited 45 mins for a no. 500 Airport Express service (they run every 10-12 mins apparently). Digital signs pronounced the imminent arrival of 3 500 buses in this time. None showed up (until 1840).
Yes, though I think that meaning has come from the fact that 'moot' meant a meeting.
(i.e. a place where things are debated... hence a moot point is debatable)
I remember learning about ancient 'moot sites' where gatherings occurred... Or remember the 'Entmoot' in Tolkien's LOTR.
(i.e. a place where things are debated... hence a moot point is debatable)
I remember learning about ancient 'moot sites' where gatherings occurred... Or remember the 'Entmoot' in Tolkien's LOTR.
September 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Yes, though I think that meaning has come from the fact that 'moot' meant a meeting.
(i.e. a place where things are debated... hence a moot point is debatable)
I remember learning about ancient 'moot sites' where gatherings occurred... Or remember the 'Entmoot' in Tolkien's LOTR.
(i.e. a place where things are debated... hence a moot point is debatable)
I remember learning about ancient 'moot sites' where gatherings occurred... Or remember the 'Entmoot' in Tolkien's LOTR.
(also could obviously be me reading too much into similar sounding words...)
September 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
(also could obviously be me reading too much into similar sounding words...)
I feel like both of those could conceivably contain some sense of being 'made to' gather for war or ceremonial purposes...
September 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I feel like both of those could conceivably contain some sense of being 'made to' gather for war or ceremonial purposes...
Is there any connection with muster (to gather?) and moot (meeting? Possibly archaic?).
(I ask without doing any research myself, yet)
(I ask without doing any research myself, yet)
September 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Is there any connection with muster (to gather?) and moot (meeting? Possibly archaic?).
(I ask without doing any research myself, yet)
(I ask without doing any research myself, yet)