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 More roundup 15 Sep 2008 Mohan Matthen, a philosopher of biology, has a very nice takedown of Thomas Nagel’s qualified support for teaching creationism on his blog. Hat tip Leiter. Richard Losick has an excellent piece on the problems of using cultured lab strains when studying microbes, at Small Things Considered. A new blog on… Read More
Administrative Travel funds 18 Mar 2011 I have, as readers know, no actual position right now. This also means that I lack all travel funds, but there are several events in America in June, ISHPSSB and the 2011 Evolution Meetings in Oklahoma, that I would love to attend and present at. Anyone got any ideas about… Read More
Administrative Competition prizes found at last! 11 Sep 2012 Last November (November!) I ran a competition for some spare copies of Species: A history, but then I moved, and my prize copies ended up in storage. I was living in a one room granny flat, as we call them in Australia, and had no access to the boxen in which… Read More