Divisible By Pi

The great beer brewing adventure begins!

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Ever had one of those surreal-ish, bizarre days? I woke up this morning with a plan to go in to the Maths Library at uni (for the first time ever) and track down a few books before lunch with friends. First, just off the bus, an old friend from Ballarat managed to recognize me from [...]

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…but then, I would say that. Because I’m a dirty-hippie-lefto-Marxist-revolutionary-tax’n’spend-Commie (or, in other words, ‘anywhere left of centre’). Anyway, enough of my posturing. The smack down begins here, with Michael O’Hare tearing apart a law professor who complains that his nearly half  a million per year income makes him just another Average Joe scraping by [...]

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…this song does remind me of Fitzroy. And to a lesser degree, Brunswick. (Video NSFW, by the way.) Also, fun fact: Somebody I know actually has the Polaroid App. If you’re reading this, you know who you are (and welcome, as I didn’t realise you read the blog…)

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Richard Dawkins has somewhat of a reputation amongst people who’ve never bothered to actually read him as an ‘angry atheist’. If the only footage they ever do bother to see of the man happened to be his speech at the Protest the Pope Rally, I doubt their opinion of the man would change. Of course, when [...]

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Sorry folks — made a trip to and back from the Rat this weekend for Yom Kippur, and am now in frantic house-cleaning mode. I don’t expect it to take long, but while you’re all waiting, entertain yourself with the following little ditty:

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Blaaaaaaargh. I’m not feeling particularly well today. Not sure why, but I’m working on the assumption that it’s an extremely temporary situation. Nevertheless, I’m not in a ‘writing lots of information mood’, so just know this: The event this week will be awesome, it will be on tropical geometry, and (as always) there are more [...]

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After a week-long break we are back with our regular UMSS events! This Wednesday the 15th (tomorrow) sees us hosting our next Q&A on Campus session on genes in the environment and genetic mythbusting led by Professor Ary Hoffmann. Ary Hoffmann is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science who received a Federation Fellowship [...]

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Couldn’t help myself. I’ve been in a music-y mood* lately, and you’re all the beneficiaries.

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Well, holy shit. Let’s take a trip in the YouTube time machine, and see if anybody remembers this lady: That’s right folks, we’re talking about the crazy lady Barney Frank smacked down so hard her grandchildren will be born homophobic. Now, any self-respecting person would slink back into their Nazi-proof bomb shelter after a caning [...]

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