The philosophy of mathematics: interesting
In fact it’s a fascinating topic and one that I’m weirdly obsessed with, so much so that when some friends decided to form a quarterly essay club I decided to
The work of Jamie Freestone and Mathew McGann
In fact it’s a fascinating topic and one that I’m weirdly obsessed with, so much so that when some friends decided to form a quarterly essay club I decided to
To take Nassim Nicholas Taleb seriously one first needs to unsubscribe from his Twitter feed, then un-like him on Facebook and then read his books, especially Antifragile and Black Swan: his
My man AC Grayling says, “To read is to fly.” I think that’s wonderful but I also think that to read (if done properly) is to continually run up against
The Australian Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet put out a horrible social media policy restricting what its employees could say. It’s so restrictive and open to nefarious interpretation, that
Well, thinking in quantitative terms, maybe we can actually figure out the literal worst thing that could happen. First, assuming that each person can experience some pretty bad stuff, on
I was given the chance — surprisingly — to give the student speech at my graduation ceremony on the 20th of December. I submitted a version of my speech for
The conviction of the six Italian scientists in October 2012 raised the hackles of scientists and rationalists everywhere, fearing a repeat of the trial of Galileo. As the facts of
Last year my colleague (and — I suppose — friend) Mathew McGann and I participated in the Canberra focus group for the Australian Science Communicators (ASC) audit of how the discipline is doing in Australia. The results