Sunday, November 25, 2018

Sierra Sequoias

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On our most recent family holiday back in America, I wanted to take the kids to see the Giant Sequoias of the Southern Sierra Nevada. I...
Thursday, November 15, 2018

Book Review: Sharp Ends, by Joe Abercrombie

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Sharp Ends is a dozen short stories of the sword and sorcery variety (more sword, less sorcery), set in a bleak, dark ages type setting....
Monday, November 05, 2018

After the Fires

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Back in 2003, western Canberra was ravaged by bushfire. One of the most heavily damaged areas was the Mt. Stromlo observatory and surro...
Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Book Review: The 2020 Comission Report into the North Korean Nuclear Attacks...

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Book review: The 2020 Commission Report into the North Korean Nuclear Attacks against the United States By Dr. Jeffrey Lewis This ...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2018

IPCC 1.5 degrees of obfuscation

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So, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released an important document today, allegedly demonstrating that 1.5 degrees of warming...
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Sunday, August 26, 2018

Mansplainer

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So I bumped into Nelly Furtado the other day, and of course I immediately started to explain to her all about Atlantic hotspots and a co...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

Looking back at my ASI years

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It has been two and a half years since I stopped working at Australian Scientific Instruments. I haven’t written or said much about it s...
Sunday, July 15, 2018

Book Review: The Political Value of Time, by Elizabeth Cohen

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I study geologic time for a living. That’s my job, and my day to day work involves making sure that the scientific instruments we use to fig...
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