I just got back from stuffing lanyards into envelopes to prepare for registration at the upcoming AtheistCon in Melbourne. Six and a half freaking hours of stuffing lanyards into envelopes. It leaves you feeling a little bit like this guy:
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We’ve all had it. You’ve just made a new acquaintance, or a number of new acquaintii (learn it, love it, use it – that plural is here to stay!), and inevitably they’ll want to know what it is you actually do with your time in real life. Being a student gets you past the first, [...]
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If you haven’t read this post by Janet Stemwedel at Adventures In Ethics and Science yet, you should. It will make you angry, it will make you sick, and it may make you want to take action and have your voice heard. I heartily recommend joining the chorus on this one. Others have covered this [...]
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UPDATE: As per the comments, it’s become clear to me that the issues that sprung up regarding the Richard Dawkins Forums were less about the fact that change took place and more about the way it took place – i.e. without considering the community at all, and behind the backs of the moderators while both [...]
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Well, that was fun. As expected, yesterday’s C&S day garnered less new members for the club than Thursday – an overall trend with clubs on the second day I would imagine. I’d hardly say we did shabbily though, with well over a hundred and fifty new sign up over the two days and more expected [...]
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In Australia, or at least at the University of Melbourne, the general ‘vibe’ I get from fellow students is that access to higher education is a right that all people should be able to partake in. The apparent tendency of universities – Australia wide, not just UniMelb – to drift towards a more corporate model [...]
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That is, why did I choose that name? I figure the question is going to come up sooner or later, so I’m going to preempt you all — and in doing so, segue nicely into my first maths post. We’ll start with the short answer: All of the nicest angles are divisible by pi. If [...]
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The first O-Week C&S day at Melbourne Uni was today from 10am til 3pm. For those of you who don’t know, I’m currently the Treasurer of the University of Melbourne Secular Society (UMSS), so the past few days have been crazy for me. Yesterday my house was moderately taken over by committee members as we [...]
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No, not everyone in my home town is an idiot. In fact, most of the people in my home town are definitely not idiots. But whoever thought that this would be a good idea, they are definitely idiots. You don’t solve alcohol related violence on the streets by refusing to serve shots; instead you just get [...]
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Hi all, and welcome to Divisible By Pi! For those of you who don’t know me, I’m a physics and maths student living in Melbourne; as such much of the content on this blog will be related to physics and maths. That’s by no means all that this blog (or my life) is about though [...]
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