C.E. Jottings

What can we learn from the 9th drop?

Wonderful item on BBC Radio 4 Today. Report on an experiment begun in 1927 to test the viscosity of pitch. (at about 2hrs 18 mins in). "At room temperature pitch feels solid - even brittle - and can easily be shattered with a blow from a hammer. It's quite amazing then, to see that pitch at room temperature is actually fluid!" "In 1927 Professor Parnell heated a sample of pitch and poured it into a glass funnel with a sealed... Read more →

A depressingly, narrowly, medical account of CP from Contact-a-Family

A depressing account. Coming up to half-time in the Barcelona-Paris St Germain Champions' League quarter final second leg - and I should not have started fiddling with Twitter. Had I not done so, I would not have linked to the Contact a Family's website, to "Read all about our enquiry service for professionals who work with families with disabled children", nor would I have checked out what they had to say about Conductive Education (nothing), nor would I then have... Read more →