If you can learn one new thing every day pretty soon you will have a good broad base of knowledge on which to draw in order to help you through any problems that you might come across in life. I always tell my research students that science is all about solving problems, but more generally [...]

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I went to see the International Premier of Lucy Simon’s new musical Dr Zhivago last Thursday (17th Feb, 2011) so thought I would write a brief review of it here.  This stage muscial is an adaptation of the 1957 novel of the same name (До́ктор Жива́го in Russian) by Boris Pasternak. There have been several [...]

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I was on the microscope on Tuesday this week listening to past episodes of the Health Report, a radio program from Radio Natioinal about health related issues, and came across two episides from late January this year discussing Huntington’s disease. Part 1 (10th Jan 2011) Part 2 (17th Jan 2011) My research area is Parkinson’s [...]

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On the weekend I made an extremely awsome 10 Year Plan to do list. There has been a lot of planning and designing of the 10 Year Plan such that it is now very elegant, and very achievable, but to date there has been too much planning of the 10 Year Plan and not enough [...]

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Well I am back from a trip around New Zealand, a really spectacular place.  You could hardly get a country more suited to agriculture if you sat down and designed it your self.  Perfect weather, perfect soil (deep volcanic), perfect rain fall.  Everything is so green over there.  Anyway now that I am back, and [...]

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Well as usual it has been a while since my last post. In the mean time it has also become 2011. I spent New Years this year camping on a beach on the East Coast of Tasmania near St Mary’s, though I am not sure of the name of the beach. While waiting for midnight [...]

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The main thing that I don’t like about politics is that you too often have to choose between the lesser of two evils, when in reality you would rather have nothing to do with either of the choices you are presented with. Take the current upcoming federal election. There are only two parties in Australia [...]

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Hi again.  I am in the US at the moment and Tala, her parents and I went hiking in a forest just out side of San Francisco called Muir Woods yesterday (Mon 5th July local time).  The area is reknowned for its large stands of trees referred to by their common name of costal red-woods (Sequoia sempervirens).  [...]

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After two and a half hours sleep I got up at 2:30am to make my way down to the opera house through the CBD. Down the southern end of the city near central there were people out and about, early morning delivery vans starting their rounds, clubbers heading home etc. I made my way down [...]

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Every so often I have come across an image on the web of a massive number of nude people all arranged in a pose of some sort, most often in cities but also out in the country (see below for some examples). The photos are kind of cool in that the people in them are [...]

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