Travel Diary 2 4 Oct 2009 So, as I missed Munich, and found myself in Frankfurt, which was shut, being a Saturday, I am now in Erlangen. I’ll say this for German trains, they are rather fast. I have met up with Thony Christie, blogger and sometime commentator on this blog (and a killer Mornington Crescent player), and we are to have dinner tonight after having had Kuche und Kaffee (old German tradition, I am told) in a delightful village the name of which I cannot now recall. I’m here for a few days and thence to the conference in Göttingen. I have managed to finish a paper on the train, too, so it’s been a useful holiday (academics don’t have holidays, they have thinking time away from their duties). More later, of course. No pics as I didn’t think to take my camera… Administrative
Administrative Travel Diary 9: An Australian in New York 24 Oct 2009 I’m an alien, a legal alien, and I have been in New York for a week. This is what I did there… Read More
Administrative Travel diary 1 3 Oct 2009 I suppose that I ought to be documenting the World Tour, so while I am on the train to München, I’ll briefly cover the past few days. This train travels so fast that light is bent on the way to the iPhone… Read More
Administrative My talk online 23 Jan 2011 The Australian Broadcasting Commission, or ABC, radio show on science, Ockham’s Razor (named after some philosophy guy), has finally played my talk on species concept history and the death of essentialist stories. You can go listen to it here. The recording process was fraught. I have reduced lung capacity due… Read More