Showing posts with label silly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label silly. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

The world is so confusing sometimes

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When will we finally reach peak gibberish in science spam? Dear Author, Formatting as in original - an auspicious start. Journal of Pro...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

Bombing of veterans

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Did anybody else read this and wonder if bombing veterans in celebration of an anniversary isn't a bit cruel? Writing news headlines ...
Friday, July 15, 2016

Freedom!

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In the light of two more recent rounds of the perennial Free Will discussion elsewhere, I think I now finally understand the incompatiblist ...
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Saturday, June 18, 2016

Taxonomic terminology again

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I have often complained about idiotically unusable identification keys. Unclear descriptions of species are a related issue. Yesterday ...
Friday, April 15, 2016

Modern art or something

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I am currently re-counting some photos of root tip squashes for a paper I am preparing, and I stumbled across this photo taken by the stu...
Saturday, March 12, 2016

Unnecessarily arcane botanical terminology

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Sometimes the personal libraries of retired colleagues who want to downsize, or other left-over old books, are made presented in the corrido...
Thursday, December 17, 2015

Fun with trendline charts

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Via Pharyngula I was recently lead to an American blog that had produced the following chart of average annual global temperatures, appare...
Saturday, August 8, 2015

Field trip to Kioloa

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After the recent reconnaissance trip to the Australian National University's Kiola Coastal Campus, I am currently on the student field ...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Fun with scientific plant names

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Long time no blog; not enough ideas what to write, too much else to do. Just went through a big dataset of Asteraceae (daisy or sunflower ...
Monday, September 1, 2014

Waterfalls, this time with actual falling water

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A few weeks ago I went to Jervis Bay with ANU lecturers and students for the third time. I always wanted to show the area to my family, and...
Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Goodbye France, hello Germany

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The first part of our trip is over, tomorrow we will travel to northern Germany. Time to have a last look at pictoresque south-western Frenc...
Friday, February 21, 2014

Why we are not getting killed by SkyNet any time soon

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Computers are dumb. For the benefit of non-German readers, this is a screenshot of the German Yahoo News site. The second paragraph sta...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Lab equipment

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Recently I bought a shiny new piece of lab equipment. It is essentially a strong neodymium magnet with 96 holes, so that you can place a ...
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Optical pollution in Canberra

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Clearly there things that are better in Germany and things that are better here in Australia. For example, the German three-tiered school sy...
Saturday, June 29, 2013

Overly honest methods

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Just got sent a link by a colleague. It's hilarious, check it out. The one with "reviewer 1" might be my favorite, as you can...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013

This science spam is getting ridiculous

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There was a time when all the spam e-mails I received were the normal, mundane kind, advertising sildenafil citrate, websites supposedly sho...
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Thursday, January 17, 2013

Only the Polytron

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Science!
Monday, December 24, 2012

Happy holidays!

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Got this from another blog, but unfortunately I don't remember where and when. Blogging is going to be sporadic until the new year.