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Now here's a challenge, in case you think this PhD business is getting too easy. http://gonzolabs.org/dance/contestants/...
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Problem: I have files on one computer at work and I want to access them at home or when I am travelling. Solution: Dropbox (there are other services): Install the software, move the files into your dropbox folder and they get automatically synchronised...
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As part of the Bluestocking Institute 's Community Scholars program, there will be a dinner and discussion session on ' The Politics of Food ' on the 15th of October from 6:30 until 8pm, to be held at the Edmund Rice Institute for Social Justice. The...
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The morning session on the politics of the Middle East was excellent. Two of UWA's contingent, Kate Riddell and Samina Yasmeen, started off the session by looking at ' Letters to the Editor as a site of Muslim exclusion '. I found the argument about letters...
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I've just got back from the Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference , and want to put down a few notes about the presentations I attended and some of my favourite papers. It would have much more convenient to liveblog the conference,...
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To start off: * They Might Be Giants are lovely, * I am delighted that TMBG are putting out children's albums. I heartily encourage all bands to put out children's albums. Okay. Got that out of the way. So, the latest TMBG kids album is called Here Comes...
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Radio National's Philosopher's Zone has a programme on this week about Power, prejudice and the murder of Stephen Lawrence . Stephen Lawrence was a young black man murdered in a hate crime in the UK in 1993. Noone has been successfully prosecuted for...
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It feels like I have been writing applications and proposals for two weeks straight now. Probably because I nearly have. Mostly applications for project funding, but also for exciting extras like training at a synchrotron and going to international conferences....
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In yet another procrastinative distraction, I have been trialling Office 2010 (yes, if you work or study at UWA you are probably considered pretty bleeding edge for using Office 2003). The technical preview is not drastically different from Office 2007...
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Excerpt from John Kinsella's poem 'Pillars of Salt', from: 'Peripheral Light: Selected and New Poems'...
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BarCamps are informal "unconferences" with an open format: rather than having a pre-arranged list of speakers and sessions, they're organised during the conference itself and are flexible enough to accomodate someone suddenly deciding to present (or not...
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It has been a long time since the last blog. Since, the Australasian Society for Stem Cell Research has become more structured, with an elected organizing committee and Executive members. The ASSCR offers members a lot of opportunities to become involved....
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My 15 year old cousin asked me on the weekend 'How come you knit and sew and cook and stuff even though you're a feminist?' I would love to live in a world where that was a surprising and naive question. Instead, I've come across the same assumption over...
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There's a fascinating podcast over on Against the Grain about Darwin, Evolution, and Slavery . James Moore argues that Darwin's research into natural selection was motivated by his abhorrence of slavery. I won't blog about it at length as I'm grappling...
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...is on Tuesday 7 July, 1pm, second-floor lunch area, Soil Science building, UWA...
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Winter's always a nice time of year to be at uni. The weather outside actually makes you want to be inside, doing something productive, or drinking coffee and discussing ideas with people. Plus being able to park in student bays without a permit, go and...
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I've finally got around to watching the Buffy vs Edward Remix that half the Internet seems to have linked to. I found the last few seconds the most interesting, because it states that "This is a transformative work and constitutes a fair-use of any copyrighted...
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You know the famous Engel quote: An ounce of action is worth a tonne of theory. Well that's bollocks, at least for the average Ph.D. student... I propose instead that an ounce of theory is worth a tonne of action. You spend weeks of source/data analysis,...
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Possibly one of the weirdest twists of logic in the global warming debate yet...
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Is there anything worse than upgrading your web browser and having it crash the first time you open it? My home page (iGoogle) is taking up to 28 secs to load (yes, I counted)! IE8 keeps freezing and new windows and even tabs take ages to load up. This...
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I've just posted about the Iran elections over at the Bluestocking Blog . I also came across a few stories yesterday about new developments in Australia's crazy 'net censorship, including news that the blacklist now includes several sites from Wikileaks,...
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FREAKING OUT and HERE'S WHY: List of things to do: Finish current chapter Start next chapter Amend lit review Finish abstract for 2010 Conference Continue primary source analysis of Melbourne and Indian materials Begin research for my T&L research...
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a short and reasonably simple article about soils on another planet...
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I've been using Zotero a lot over the last few months as I tidy up my chapters and start putting together a bibliography, so I'm pleased to see a couple of positive developments in the project. Firstly, the lawsuit brought against Zotero by Thomson Reuters...
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I've been a little lazy with blogging over the last month. Getting some real field work done, reviving the Social Club and even getting started on some experimental work have taken up a fair bit of time. I've done inductions for three residue deposit...
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