February 2013 Issue
The other day I fell into a state of amazement... of wonder... During a session of brainstorming with myself, and in a time of momentary blank, I drifted towards the simplicity of things in items we take for granted... this immediately became a sparked fascination... I wondered how we found the absolute logic, and with it built and understood the simplest of mathematical models, and then wrote the corresponding complex equations governing, for example, the rules of dynamics... and how, in music, we managed to underwrite a sound from within a vast acoustic range, to create the complex sonatas of Bach and lately the rattling of lady Gaga... and then it struck me... the simplest of all amazing things we take for granted: The bygone creation of the letter and, thereafter, the combinations of these letters into words, themselves expressed in sounds and clicks...I stopped and rethought the thought...
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AMSI honoured its schools' founding staff members and teachers on the 12th of March.
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