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December 20, 2019
This blog will look at what challenges we had in terms of lighting, what we wanted to achieve and how we achieved the desired effects.
December 18, 2019
The DP course title Information Technology in a Global Society (ITGS) will change to Digital Society in 2022.
December 16, 2019
William Ramsey was Scottish and was born in Glasgow on the 2nd October 1852 where he eventually went on to study chemistry at the University of Glasgow. His studies and research too him to Germany,...
December 13, 2019
This blog will explain how I achieved some lighting effects for 'The Railway Children' that I co-designed the lights for recently, and will also refer to a play I saw in New York recently, that...
December 11, 2019
The E/Z or cis / trans system can be used to name geometric isomers. Geometric isomers are molecules that have groups above and below the plane of a ring or double bond.
December 9, 2019
Much of what we know about Pythagoras is conjecture. We do know that he was born on the Greek island of Samos in about 570 BC. Around about 530 BC he founded what can only...
December 6, 2019
How do you show the IB examiners something that no longer exists (e.g. branches that were burned)? In this blog post we discuss the process of decomposition and destruction by fire, the way things change...
December 4, 2019
It is not known how many illegal migrants there are in Britain. Some estimates put them at around 650,000 +/- 200,000! What is clear, however is that people will take huge risks to enter the...
December 2, 2019
This blog will look at all the different ways you can go about carrying out research into a tradition, and will provide Kathakali sources you may want to use yourself.
November 29, 2019
Here are five issues that can play a role when assessing the work of students taking the IB Visual Arts examinations.
November 27, 2019
The control of society is as old as government itself, but modern technology combined with the power of predictive algorithms, has provided states, along with multinational corporations, with more and more invidious methods of citizens’...
November 25, 2019
Scientists have only recently discovered that Arctic/glacial meltwater streams take in atmospheric carbon at a faster rate than tropical rainforests.