Briefly 16 Feb 2009 I finally have internet – only took Primus three weeks to install and get working my internet and phone – and that was with an existing account and line! Tonight I went to the opening of a Thomas Henry Huxley exhibit at the Macleay Museum, and Michael Ruse gave an excellent talk on Tom and his Sydney connection (his wife Nettie came from Sydney and THH himself spent a fair bit of time here and up north on the HMS Rattlesnake). Then a nice Thai dinner and talk, although (you may be surprised to learn) I spent a lot of time just listening. Ruse and Paul Griffiths at the same table made for entertaining discussion. Then I stayed up to watch the latest Dexter and so to bed… Evolution History
Evolution The “design” mistake 18 Feb 2008 Back when Darwin was a student at Cambridge, he read, and almost memorised the Rev William Paley’s Natural Theology, and thereafter remained impressed by the obvious adaptiveness of the parts of organisms and their interrelations. As is well known, he gave an explanation differently to Paley’s external intelligence that designs… Read More
History Ill of the dead 8 Mar 20218 Mar 2021 I have found it necessary, in the course of this volume, to speak of the departed; for the misgovernment of the Royal Society has not been wholly the result of even the present race. It is said, and I think with justice, in the life of Young inserted amongst Dr…. Read More
Evolution ROUS’s? I don’t believe they exist. 15 Jan 2008 Anyone who knows the film The Princess Bride knows what happens next. Westley gets hit hard by a rodent about the size of a pitbull. However, it seems that ROUS’s (Rodents of Unusual Size) actually may have existed, in Uruguay. Nature reports that the skull of one has been discovered,… Read More
They weren’t when I signed a two year contract in Brisbane. I have to say I won’t be signing another one. Colin, I have no idea. I am trying to track this down, but nothing seems to work.
Now, I make the connection. “Primus” is not a band that wrote a bad lyric, but instead a telecom/provider.
This apparently was posted at 11pm on Feb 16th, which it probably was, you being in Sydney and all, but it’s messing up the RSS feed,because it’s not getting that you are in Sydney and I’m in Ottawa, Canada. I think you aren’t indicating timezone correctly or something?