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 My grant project 16 Oct 2008 It occurred to me that some readers may be interested in the grant project, so I put the details beneath the fold. I am funded for an Australian Postdoctoral (APD) research fellowship for three years. Read More
Administrative Talkorigins.org back up 12 Jan 2009 The website www.talkorigins.org is now back up, although links to the temporary archive www.toarchive.org/ still work for now. The story is roughly this – the company (joker.com) we bought the domain name from reassigned the IP number for the site as part of changing their data centre. They apparently sent… Read More
Administrative Work intervenes 5 Jul 2009 I am going to a couple of conferences over the next fortnight. They are in Brisbane, so I don’t have to cross any water. One is the annual Australian HPS conference, and the other is the biennial international HPS of biology conference. They will both be what passes for fun… 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.