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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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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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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I know, I know…I’ve been lax lately. But in my defense, I’ve also been spending a lot of time organizing the semesterly MUMS trivia night. It’s this Friday (tomorrow) at 5.15pm. Come on up to the Russell Love Theatre in the Richard Berry Building (i.e. maths and stats) — entry is free (even if you [...]
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Argh! This is it, folks — the last seminar of the semester (as next week we’ve got a trivia night planned instead)! You don’t want to miss out on this…so don’t! Same time and place as always: Details are below the fold… —————
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If you’re around Melbourne Uni this lunchtime, you should head over to the Medley Theatre (Redmond Barry building) at 1pm. The Secular Society is screening the first half of Judgement Day: Intelligent Design On Trial, a documentary about the Dover trial.
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Well — the end of semester is approaching fast, and with it the end of the MUMS Friday Events for 2010. This week is the second last seminar for the year, with Norm Do this week, followed by Paul Pearce next week and a trivia night the week after. I know about as much as [...]
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Sex, violence and politics – what do sexual slavery and violence against women have to do with politics as we know it? What are the links between the exploitation of the environment and women? How can a feminist analysis of violence and power shape conventional campaigns? In this upcoming UMSS Q&A on Campus, Kathleen Maltzahn [...]
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Oops! First week back, and I’m late posting this up — it’s on today (obviously) and it looks to be a cracker, so make sure to get to the Physics Podium at 1pm! More details below. —————
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…that’s right folks: We’ve kidnapped him and brought him to Australia. On DVD. So…not really, then. But the hummus we actually have, so that should be alright. In case you’re wondering what I’m rambling on about — in celebration of the fact the we are back at uni after a two week non-instructional period (yes, I’m [...]
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