Looking for a delicious, healthy start to your day? We’re excited to announce the launch of our Yoghurt Bar at Café π.
Starting 30th September, join us every Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 11:00 am for a serving of creamy natural yoghurt topped with your choice of three delicious toppings - all for just £2.60.
Well, not quite, but next week two of our mathematicians are spreading the word via public talks at almost the same time.
In one corner is Alain Goriely who is giving his first Gresham Lecture - 'The Big Brain: Size and Intelligence' - at 6pm, Tuesday 17 September. Sold out in person but you can watch online.
This song starts as if they are making up as they go along. Which in Big Star's case probably wasn't a million miles from the truth. But wait for the chorus.
Big Star did it all. Made unfashionable music at the wrong time, sold no records, self-destructed and influenced generations of subsequent bands. As they sing: "Love me, we can work out the rest".
As you know we film plenty of student lectures and they are very popular on YouTube. But one think crops up again and again. Or rather doesn't crop up enough: working board pens. So we made a little compilation with the caption:
"What do you need to give a good student maths lecture? Knowledge of the subject? Good delivery? Interaction with the audience? Nah, none of those..."
Let's just say a lot of social media viewers didn't get it.
Oxford Open Doors 2024, happening this weekend, Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 September (but not in our building). Find out more on the Oxford Trust Preservation website.
Image: J M W Turner - Oxford High Street (1810)
The Herbs was a children's show featuring puppets named after, yes you guessed it, different herbs. So Lady Rosemary, Sir Basil, Dill the Dog, Sage the Owl etc., and Parsley himself who introduced each episode. It was written by Michael Bond who also wrote Paddington Bear (statue on platform 1 of Paddington Station, of Paddington that is, not Michael). The rhyming of Parsley with harshly is genius.
I will leave it to you to imagine how this would work for different areas of maths.
Some songs' greatest moment comes in the opening bars or words. When Charles Trenet starts to sing, with those first two words you know you are on to a good thing.
La Mer is also one of those songs expropriated by other languages (and lyrics). There are English, German and even Soviet Russian versions amongst others.
The vibraphone consists of tuned metal bars which the player hits with mallets. It is common in classical music, but especially prevalent in jazz and there is no-one better on 'vibes' than Milt Jackson. Here he is with Modern Jazz Quartet, the group founded and led by pianist John Lewis and in which Milt spent much of his career.
So shut down the laptop, kick off your shoes and let John and Milt sink you in to summer. They start slow. Then get a little less slow. But never get too fast.