They say that the key to successful blogging lies, in part, to keeping some kind of schedule or regularity to your postings. Therefore, if one was to attribute to me a keen desire and aptitude towards keeping a successful blog, the only conclusion that could be drawn is that my particular schedule is an annual [...]
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So I suppose I ought to give an explanation for this, right? Well, here goes… Like most things, I feel this will be easier with the aid of a chart: Right now, I’m somewhere to the south of ‘Stressing balls’. On top of the nice, manageable, regular amount of stress that comes from doing a [...]
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Really? Already? Well gosh — I couldn’t hear you over the sound of me still reading research materials at home, working at a job, and now (having had a few days away from that) frantically preparing for Christmas. Which is to say that I love you all dearly, and your regularly scheduled maths/politics/skepticism/whatever will be [...]
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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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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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Well. Just in time for me to stop being crazy busy because of exams, TAM has arrived to once again take me away from my blogging duties. For those who’ve never heard of The Amazing Meeting, imagine if all your geekiest heroes were collected at one convention together. It’s pretty much that — we’ll be brushing [...]
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So…this week is going to be frantic. One week to study, and then exams take over my life. As such, I’ve decided to change things up a little bit this week. Instead of writing new posts (which, you know, takes time) I’ll be reblogging a post a day from the first couple of months of the [...]
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Reports have come in now that the mathematical giant Benoit Mandelbrot has died at age 85 after a prolonged battle with pancreatic cancer. In launching what was basically an entirely new field of study (fractals), Mandelbrot had a distinction that very few mathematicians enjoy — and to his benefit he lived long enough to see [...]
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It’s a bit of a late notice, but for a good 40 minutes still a bunch of my friends have taken over a science radio show! They’re doing a bang up job, so get to it!
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If you are a University of Melbourne student, and you haven’t renewed your Student Union Membership for 2011 yet do it before next Friday. Seriously. No questions. Just freakin’ do it. … Okay, so you probably want some reasons. Here’s three fantastic ones: If you do it before next Friday, you get the discounted renewal [...]
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