My office 12 Feb 200918 Sep 2017 The University of Sydney is covered with modern buildings, but it also has a few that date back to the 1850s. As it happens I’m located in one. It has no heating, cooling, or internal toilets, but look at it: My office is the two windows to the right, on the floor above the arch. I don’t know if I will do any good work here, but it won’t be for lack of tradition. I can even deal with the carillon exercises immediately above my head each day. Administrative
Administrative Testing Tweet Embedding 1 Oct 201110 Oct 2011 Using a hint from here: http://twitter.com/#!/john_s_wilkins/status/119905993344827394 http://twitter.com/#!/john_s_wilkins/status/119905698241978368 http://twitter.com/#!/john_s_wilkins/status/119905579950026752 http://twitter.com/#!/john_s_wilkins/status/119765002872827905 Testing LaTeX embedding: [latex]H= -K\sum^{n}_{i=1} p(i) \log p(i)[/latex] [latex]d(x, y) = \alpha f(X – Y) + \beta f(Y – X) – \theta f(X – Y) \quad \alpha, \beta,\theta \geq 0[/latex] Read More
Administrative I’m a 3QD Philosophy Prize semifinalist 12 Sep 201122 Jun 2018 You no longer can vote for me, but I made the cut for this post on phenomena, so I think you should go read some cool philosophy posts while we wait for the editors to pick six entries to send to Pat Churchland for a final judgement… So, this being… Read More
Administrative A rather big year 23 Nov 2009 This has been a big year for me. I had two books published, travelled to Lisbon, to Italy, Germany, the UK and the US, gave a slew of talks and talked to a slew of folk. And today I was recorded for a nation-wide show, Ockham’s Razor (probably to be… Read More
If it does, my lateral aphasia prevents me from noticing. [This is turning out to be Medical Revelations, isn’t it?]
If it does, my lateral aphasia prevents me from noticing. [This is turning out to be Medical Revelations, isn’t it?]
If it does, my lateral aphasia prevents me from noticing. [This is turning out to be Medical Revelations, isn’t it?]
Hey! I thought everything in Australia was upside down, but here it appears to be only tilted about 5 degrees. I hope that you have velcro for your Mac Book so that it doesn’t slide down your desk….
Two windows? TWO!? I thought philosophers were stored in the basement, to be dragged out on special occasions.
Two windows? TWO!? I thought philosophers were stored in the basement, to be dragged out on special occasions.
Two windows? TWO!? I thought philosophers were stored in the basement, to be dragged out on special occasions.
So if there are no internal toilets, what do you do? Go outside. There are toilets accessible from the quadrangle…
So if there are no internal toilets, what do you do? Go outside. There are toilets accessible from the quadrangle…
So if there are no internal toilets, what do you do? Go outside. There are toilets accessible from the quadrangle…
Oooh! I wonder if the Skeptic Zone podcast might meet up with you one day to talk about Science blogging? That’d be cool! 🙂