My apologies to anybody who has accessed the site today to find things going a little bit crazy — I’ve been making some changes that were not as straightforward as I had hoped they would be. To wit: Most obviously, I now have Google AdSense sitting on the right side of the page. It’s displaced [...]
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I’ve just called up and made an offer to volunteer for the Greens on election day. I’ve done a tiny spot of volunteering previously, and may do some more before the election — but as many of you will know from past posts, I’m not a member of the Greens, and I don’t plan to [...]
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…at least when he’s talking about evolution and genetics, and not accommodationism. I’m pretty sure that, in the vernacular of the day, Ken Miller just ‘pwnd’ Creationism.
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Give or take a month or two, that is. Does anybody remember when my grand plan was to write a series of short crash courses about my subjects, to give a feel of what it’s like to be a physics and maths student and give an overview of what it is I actually study? Does [...]
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You’ve probably seen this one around before, but I feel it’s always worth a repost for those who might not have seen it, and a rewatch for those who have. Taking on the old Creationist chestnut that ‘a watch requires a watchmaker’ this guy deconstructs the assumptions in the argument, takes them out of the [...]
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Eager to alert me to the fact that Jennifer Keeton from Georgia might not have the biggest persecution complex around, Bing McGhandi (from Happy Jihad’s House of Pancakes) linked me to this story from Texas that…well, I’ll let you read for yourself. A Texas bus driver has filed a lawsuit against his former employer, claiming [...]
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You’ve probably already seen this floating around the intertubes, but I have it on good authority that every time this trailer gets posted a geek somewhere gets laid. And let’s face it, they need all the help they can get… Seriously though — how awesome is that? Phil explains a bit more over at Bad [...]
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Face it. If he were your maths teacher, you’d start to pay attention in class.
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Free…except for your immortal soul!!! Bwahahahahahahahaha!!! Seriously though, if you’re at the University of Melbourne why not come over to the Medley Theatre in Redmond Barry tomorrow (28/07/10) at 1pm — we’re having a welcome back week event for the University of Melbourne Secular Society: We’ll be screening talks from the Global Atheist Convention 2010, and [...]
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So, I’ve already touched on rings and modules. That only leave fields and Galois Theory to touch on in this series on university algebra (and my university subjects in general). When I first introduced fields during my discussion of different types of rings, I defined a field as ‘a commutative division ring‘. While this is [...]
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