Human exceptionalism with a human face
This is me on human exceptionalism for Areo, a rather good up and coming digital magazine. I point out the irony of using super-advanced scientific tools to do studies on crows to
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The sublime in popular science
I presented a little paper the other day that was a brief introduction to my research (PDF). There’s not too much gobbledygook in there as it’s written for a general reader.
Universe Revealed post-mortem
A couple of years back, Jamie and I worked on a failure of an event called “Universe Revealed”. The first hint at why it was a failure may come from
Mah thesis about mathesis
Here is my thesis “Wordsworth and non-Euclidean Geometry”, submitted for Honours in English Literature at ANU in 2013. It’s fair to say it divided the two markers, one of whom clearly
Chaos in the Studio
This is me guest hosting my colleague/friend Meg O’Connell’s program, Bright Pods, on 2XX FM a few months ago. The show had a great format whereby a serious interview with an expert (a “bright pod”) is preceded