Hat tip to @lukeweston on Twitter who put me on to this — there’s a free public lecture on tonight at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre that sounds like it’ll be a lot of fun. Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell, the astrophysicist best know as one of the discoverers of pulsars, will be giving a [...]
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Also, is it just me, or is it possible that Grimace is actually the good guy in this situation? Saving children from obesity and diabetes, while Ronald dons a particularly unconvincing disguise, before taking the kids out for milkshakes like some nineteen-fifties paedophile?
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I mentioned that before we moved on to anything else, I’d chuck some examples of metric spaces out there. So…what are we waiting for? Let’s do this crazy thing.
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…well, to Sydney today. Then Chile and the Gemini South Observatory tomorrow. Keep an eye on her blog — my understanding is that she’ll be posting some stuff up from La Serena over the next ten weeks.
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In everyday life, we take certain geometrical facts for granted. For example, that two parallel lines will never meet, or that given two points in space we can (theoretically) draw a straight line between them. These and other such common sense ideas form the basis of what is traditionally called Euclidean geometry; otherwise known as [...]
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So…TAMOz? It was good. Mostly, it was really good. Of course, as one might expect there were highlights and low/average-lights; but on the whole the quality of the conference was excellent. To summarise the most important bits…
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Internet came back online earlier today much sooner than expected — so many thanks to Internode (our provider who have always been brilliant with us). Now I can finally scratch that blogging itch… In the meantime, you should all go check out the latest addition to the blogoverse (*linguists wept*): Dinner Table Conversations. My housemate [...]
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So…with both the George Hrab gig and the free public lecture done and out of the way, you’d think I’d now have time to blog rather a bit more. And you’d be right. Sadly, however, the Internet appears to have different ideas. When I got home yesterday after a long day out at Healesville with [...]
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*sigh* The best ones are always from Canada, aren’t they? First we lost UMSS Vice President Anna Yeung back to the frozen far north, and now our favourite long haired ball of awesome Evan has trundled back up there as well. *sniffle* At least we’ll always have his excellent video blog to remember him by…
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