Davies, aka Frog, agrees: "There has been a lot of bullying recently, especially of Dulwich Mum . People might not understand that a blogger is just being silly and facetious, a bit like ear-wigging a conversation you've missed the beginning
New research suggesting that women increase their chances of having boys if they eat cereal for breakfast is the latest bizarre twist in a scientific debate that has been raging for centuries. The study, in the journal Proceedings of the
I am ready to throw in the towel," he announced, "I am finished with the City of London, we should purchase one of those business franchises for home delivery organic vegetables and live a simpler life." OHMYGOD!!! I almost inhaled
Soon we were surrounded by other Bugaboo-pushing celebrities and smart urban couples. Everyone who was anyone maternity-wise suddenly had a Bugaboo. And then even those of us who weren't anyone in particular decided we needed one, too. The Bugaboo wasn't
Of the spate of books intended to help parents boost their children's brain capacity, the trade magazine Publishers Weekly noted, 'A robust economy, demographics that have schools across the country bursting at the seams, parental anxiety about setting their offspring
Blogging: mum's the wired word A guide to the world of blogging mums www.froginthefield.blogspot.com Caroline Davies is the Frog, "part mother, part lunatic" farmer's wife in Monmothshire. www.potty-diaries.blogspot.com Potty Mummy is a 41-year-old full-time mother and former marketing consultant. More
Now once again we seem to have tumbled off the parental tightrope between acceptable rewards and barefaced bribery, only this time it's even more costly. Frustrated that our daughter still didn't know eight times eight, my husband decreed she would
Our pet guru, veterinary surgeon Pete Wedderburn, answers your queries Two of my three children under the age of 12 have been obsessed with dogs since babyhood. A dog would bring great joy to their lives, but I work part-time
The problem is, they seem to like certain forms of work and dislike others. My children, for example, love nothing more than to help me stuff envelopes. Every six months or so, I send 500 copies of The Idler magazine
It's a time of nervous tension all round, so how can the candidates minimise their stress levels while maximising their marks? We've put together 10 slightly unusual ways of making exam-taking easier and revision less rotten. 1. View your mind
Two academics from The Robert Gordon University have won international awards (sponsored by Adobe Systems Inc.) from the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), an international...
When the aim of an experiment is the estimation of a Generalised Linear Model (GLM), standard designsfrom linear model theory may prove inadequate. This paper describes a flexible approach for findingdesigns for experiments to estimate GLMs through the use of
A simultaneous confidence band provides useful information on the plausible range of the unknown regression model. Construction of a simultaneous confidence band has a history going back to Working and Hotelling (1929) and is often a hard problem when the
The Gini coefficient has proved valuable as a measure of income inequality. In cross-sectional studies of the Gini coefficient, information about the accuracy of its estimate is crucial. We show how to use jackknife and linearization to estimate the variance
