Mark Cuban posted a little article a while back about the parallels he sees between the newspaper industry and what is now happening in th...
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Being impolite is good science
I have the habit, whenever I review a scientific paper or attend a scientific talk, of trying to find a hole in the case being made. Are the...
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February 27, 2013
personal
Urinal cakes
I was thinking about urinal cakes today, mostly because I've noticed that they seem to have all but disappeared. Instead, urinals seem ...
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February 23, 2013
The politics of traffic offences
My usual disclaimer: nothing about what I write below should suggest that I trivialise driving under the influence or that I think it should...
![How on Earth are Harley Davidsons legal? How on Earth are Harley Davidsons legal?](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ltyYh4ysBHI/U04MKlHc6pI/AAAAAAAADQo/PFxXaGZu9PQ/w100-h100-c/no-image.png)
February 22, 2013
society
How on Earth are Harley Davidsons legal?
Most developed countries have fairly strict legislation around noise pollution from motor vehicles. For the most part it works pretty well, ...
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Things I like about blogging
So I haven't been in this blogging game for very long, but I'm already discovering a few things that I like about it: It's self-...
![On being lazy On being lazy](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ltyYh4ysBHI/U04MKlHc6pI/AAAAAAAADQo/PFxXaGZu9PQ/w100-h100-c/no-image.png)
On being lazy
I've done the Myers-Briggs personality type test a couple of times now (I'm an INTJ, FWIW). While I found much of it less than usef...
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How to give a good presentation
(This is a lightly-reworked version of a posting I originally made on my internal blog at IBM) The art of giving presentations is a difficul...
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How should countries react to a recession?
I seem to be getting into the habit of putting disclaimers at the top of my posts: for the purposes of this discussion, I'm going to ass...
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February 04, 2013
personal
Melbourne: one year on
I read once that there is a Native American tribe who believe that when you travel, your soul follows you at walking pace. This imagery has ...
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February 02, 2013
politics
I don't get the whole Julian Assange thing
I'm not going to write about whether the Wikileaks thing was right or not... that just seems like too much of a can of worms and I have ...
![Cellar Door and Farm Gate Pricing Cellar Door and Farm Gate Pricing](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ltyYh4ysBHI/U04MKlHc6pI/AAAAAAAADQo/PFxXaGZu9PQ/w100-h100-c/no-image.png)
January 30, 2013
economics
Cellar Door and Farm Gate Pricing
Once upon a time, winemakers and farmers used to sell their goods at discounted prices at the place of production. This made good sense; by ...
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January 23, 2013
meta
What's with the blog title?
I could just Google it for you , but in case you were wondering I'll make it easy. Gell-Mann Amnesia is the name given by Michael Cric...
January 22, 2013
Hawk-Eye
I was at the Australian Open tennis last night (quarter final between Djokovic and Berdych, not a bad match) and found myself wondering abou...
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