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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Things to do

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It's hard lately to both concentrate on work and survey the web for stuff that interests me and is "blogworthy." Also, the t...
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Watching the war

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SBS has, for a long time, been the place to go to watch documentaries about World War 2, particularly on Friday nights. As it happens, I don...

Getting your fears in correct priority

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According to this Scientific American blog , in an 8 year recent period in the United States, more spiders killed people than snakes. I wou...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Climate stuff noted

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First , the New York Times has a good, balanced article on the question of the cold European and American winters this year and last, and w...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Of minor blogworthiness

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Nothing much around that makes me feel like posting at length today, although people might be curious enough to read these: * the odd probl...
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Monday, January 24, 2011

All summer in a day*

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Yesterday was a lovely summer's day in Brisbane; the first in 3 months it seems. So, being the last day of the school holidays, we went...
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Saturday, January 22, 2011

Meanwhile, in a cylinder in Russia…

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How easy it is to forget about the international team of Claustrophobics Anonymous which has been living in a can near Moscow for 6 months a...
Friday, January 21, 2011

Lessons for my daughter

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Oh good. An article in the Japan Times that covers my interest in both Japanese toilets and theology: Paying respect to the Japanese toile...
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Thursday, January 20, 2011

A whole bunch of physics (expanded from yesterday edition)

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Just when I was thinking "gee, there hasn't been much speculative physics stories around for a while", I find a whole bunch of...
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We think we've found the problem

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In Australia, a news story about the how often the population is having sex will more than likely be based on some women's or men's ...
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Victorian murder

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As noted in Arts & Letters Daily, there's an amusing review in the Spectator of a book about Victorian England's cultural enthu...
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

A good thing to avoid

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Just file this under "things I didn't know" (or perhaps more likely, "something I had once read but forgotten"): Wo...
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Monday, January 17, 2011

Not a flood post

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A few things that have come to my attention: * Richard Ayoade (Moss in the IT Crowd) seems to genuinely be a self-effacing, likeable pers...
Friday, January 14, 2011

Around the flood

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This is how the week developed since my last post on Wednesday morning. (Feels longer ago than that, but experiencing novel events has that...
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Floods

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Brisbane's floods will not directly affect my house, but certainly I live and work in suburbs which will have houses inundated. (There...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011

I may be a man, but I’m not taking any chances

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WOMEN who habitually take strenuous exercise might be at risk of damaging their cognitive function later in life.
Monday, January 10, 2011

Steve's stupid but brilliant idea of the day

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Brisbane and much of Queensland has been incredibly wet this summer, with thousands of homes flooded, and hundreds of thousands of parents w...
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Saturday, January 08, 2011

Make friends and influence people the Anglican way

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There was a short story in the Courier Mail this morning about how the Anglican Church in Brisbane is looking for more, younger recruits to...
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Friday, January 07, 2011

Graph noted

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This graph appeared recently on a Scienceblog and has evidently been around for a long time. (Original source is Global Warming Art .) It ...
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Thursday, January 06, 2011

New York Times finally gets ESP

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The NYT website, at least, is featuring prominently the story of soon to be published ESP experiments of Daryl Bem. You read about them at ...
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