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Long time no see 30 Oct 2007 | 11:10 pm
It certainly has been a long time. Last Saturday I went to the 40 year reunion of my year from Ryde High School. It was held 40 years since we stated our Higher School Certificate exams. About 25 or m...
A part of the solution 25 Sep 2007 | 10:04 pm
No single thing that we have done has led to our climate change problems. No single thing that we can do will solve them. One thing that we have to do is use our energy resources more economically. A...
So that's where the difference is 13 Aug 2007 | 10:08 pm
I was at a very interesting seminar and an interesting conversation afterwards. When the Human Genome Project was completed everyone was surprised at how few gene there were. Only about 20-25,000 pro...
I didn't know it looked like that 26 Jun 2007 | 09:21 pm
This week the Institute for Molecular Bioscience holds its annual Winter School in Mathematical and Computational Biology. One of the talks was on the Visible Cell project. The aim of this project is ...
The nervous system we didn't know we had 14 Apr 2007 | 12:27 am
Most people have heard the claim that we only use 10% of our brain. Not many know the origin of this story. It appears to be a garbled version of the fact than only about 10% of the brain's cells are ...
It's been too long 10 Apr 2007 | 10:05 pm
since my last blog post. For various reasons I haven't been able to settle down to write one. But more important I'd been out of work for too long. At last I'm back at work, doing something I find in...
Bring me the head of ... 22 Sep 2006 | 09:20 pm
First off, profound apologies are due to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Alexander Downer. He is not responsible for the horrendous mucking around and obstruction and sheer bastardy that Z...
We still have a problem 30 Jul 2006 | 01:20 am
Last year I posted an essay on Global warming. Since then I've been finding out more about the subject. Nothing that I have seen gives me any reason to change my belief that the problem is real. In m...
Bastardy pure and simple 27 Jul 2006 | 01:31 pm
Nearly a year ago I put up a post about the spontaneous sex change that a close friend Zoe Brain was undergoing. Since then she has become much more comfortable with the changes that are happening. Sh...
Underestimation 29 Jun 2006 | 05:52 pm
For a classic piece of underestimation of a likely enemy here is an article from a US aviation magazine in early 1941. More than a little bit of wishful thinking here.
