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I worked for ten years at The Walter and Eliza Institute of Medical Research (WEHI for short). This was the institution at which Macfarlane Burnet was director. I will be writing a piece on Mac’s Clonal Selection Theory of immunology, and if my former employers and employees come through, I aim to have images of Mac’s actual lab book where he came up with the idea, on the 50th anniversary of the publication of it.

The youthful and handsome Jason Grossman has roped me in to do a dadaist seminar on Feyerabend. Jason and I are the intellectual progeny of Neil Thomason, who was one of PKF’s students, so we are his intellectual grandsons, and therefore cousins (I’m the one that never gets invited to the family reunions). I may recount the experience of Jason’s experiment and my humiliation. Or not, if the humiliation is too great (but our grandpapa would have revelled in it).

I have a bunch of speciation-related papers to comment on.

I’m preparing an introduction to the evolution of religion. You’ll read bits here first (as in, first draft).

I’d like to thank all the kind words from various people about my academic difficulties, including and in particular Stefan Linquist and Craig Miller who in the nicest possible way told me to suck it up and be a mensch. I will repay…

But as I’m still teaching a subject I am barely able to comprehend, bear with me; it may take a small while. And I haven’t forgotten the other to-dos either.