Wilkins in UK 11 Apr 2010 Just a general alert for civilisation and sanity: I will be in the UK briefly in late May, and wandering around the south of England for a few days. Anyone who may want to guard their country against colonial incursion should drop me a note and we can coordinate. I spend four days in Oxford first, so the threat is relatively contained. Administrative
Administrative A nice experience 12 Oct 2007 My mate Ian Musgrave, Astroblogger and expert in several fields of science, and his lovely family, are up visiting rellies in Queensland from the arid wasteland that is Adelaide. We all went on a bushwalk and while we were eating apples at the top of the cliff, we saw a… Read More
Administrative ET Etiquette 26 May 2008 One of the things about having one’s own blog is that one gets to say what sorts of behaviours are acceptable by commenters. My commenters are generally a pretty nice bunch of people, often clever (hey, they read me) and polite even as the issues get hot. Occasionally, one is… Read More
Administrative News from Ediacara 27 Oct 2008 The Ediacaran period is the era between around 635Mybp and 540Mybp, just before the Cambrian. You pronounce it “ed-ee-ack-a-ran”. It is also the name of a new blog by the inimitable Chris Nedin, erstwhile paleontologist who specialised in the Ediacaran fauna before joining the Dark Side (federal public service) in… Read More
Google Earth gives a road route of 193 miles (whatever they may be! I thought Britain had gone metric!) between oh so bracing Cromer on the north Norfolk coast and the spires of Oxford. BTW Bob, Clacton-on.Sea is even more bracing!
Any chance of you popping in to see Richard Dawkins so you can put him straight about agnosticism? If you’re in London and fancy Turkish food there’s a great kebab place called Efes Restaurant in Great Titchfield Street. The nearest Tube station is Oxford Circus. Which, as we all know, is on the way to Mornington Crescent.