Author Archives: rpg

Over at the Lablit fora there is a discussion on the language of creativity. The conversation, um, evolved somewhat and got to talking about online vs down the pub conversation. Someone said I just feel that an online discussion is … Continue reading →

Content theft and copyright breach in progress. http://newjobq.com/ is stealing my posts and publishing them without attribution. Is there actually anything we can do about this?

You’d have to be living in a hole in the ground (ha ha…) not to notice the rocketing price of oil ($135 and climbing). Having just spent a single digit but seemingly unreasonable number of thousands of Australian dollars (US$:Au$ … Continue reading →

Now, I know that I didn’t go into this so-called career because of the money, but some days I really feel undervalued. The average salary for a radiologist – a specialist who does the reporting and interpreting of an x-ray, … Continue reading →

It is today perhaps taken for granted that the potential for the most exciting (dare I say ‘ striking ‘?) scientific discoveries lie at the interfaces between traditional disciplines. This presupposes that scientists will collaborate with each other: just within … Continue reading →

… I just play one in real life. So. Out here in the boonies , surrounded by man-eating spiders , spider-eating snakes, man-eating sharks and shark-eating crocs (shut up, Henry), an internet connection is a very good thing. For one, … Continue reading →

Lovely little article on turning the clumsy and ambiguous CIA interrogators stripped naked and played earsplitting music to Abu Zubaydah, the first henchman of Osama bin Laden captured by US after the September 11 attacks there five years ago, according … Continue reading →

Quite frequently, as I drive around the ‘Lucky Country’ [0], I see roadworks. As Australian workmen appear to be the slowest and laziest in the world these persist for quite a while. Which gives me plenty of time to read … Continue reading →

Woah. This is what science is about. The cut and thrust of informed debate. Elegant hypotheses slain by the dragons of empiricism. Clinical, evolutionary, and molecular evidence refutes their hypothesis. Conclusions […] are uninterpretable and untenable — from a letter … Continue reading →

The New York Academy of Sciences and the United Nations Millennium Project have launched a database aimed at fostering partnerships among scientists in the developed and developing world and to coordinate science-based activities to help solve some of the big … Continue reading →