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Food Rainbow
The PhD storm is over (for now). I hope to take up writing in this blog again now. This food was picked in Alexandria Community Garden and it is the actual embodiment of all the sunny days I missed...
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My Crown of Weeds
A long time ago I promised to think more about the crown of weeds in King Lear. On October 12, 2012, more than two years since I made that promise, I was given that opportunity in public. I...
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Frankenstorm versus Frankenstein
In case Sandy actually does destroy the entire North East of the USA, I might take this opportunity to reflect upon the significance of the neologism ‘Frankenstorm’, before such academic nit-picking...
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Climate Change, Neo-Liberalism and Progressive Policy Wonks
A “wonk” is a general and derogatory term for a nerd who takes meticulous interest in details of a particular field of knowledge. But it is usually reserved for people who are obsessively interested in...
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Bike Riding to the Airport: Alternative Carbon Offset? (Part 1)
This morning I caught a 7am flight to Perth for the ‘Shakespeare and Emotions’ conference at UWA. The abundance of interstate and international travel involved in academic pursuits is one of the more...
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Bike Riding to the Airport: The Conclusion (Part 2)
The flight home from Perth was fast, aided by a tail wind. After only three hours and forty minutes in the air, I was back in Sydney. Craig (AKA the red-headed fiance-sized cycle buddy from Part 1)...
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Grammar Lesson #2
This post was written for publication on www.afterdawes.com but our server has been hacked and we can’t log in, so I’ll post it here for the time being. In 26 Views of a Starburst World, Ross Gibson...
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The Storm of February 6, 1788
This post was intended for publication on www.afterdawes.com, but our server was hacked so I will post it here until we can access our site again. About seven years ago my flatmate James was reading...
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Gone Farmin’
This blog served me well throughout my PhD as a way of working through my research, procrastinating and writing about things I was not allowed to write about in my dissertation. But it has been sitting...
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My ride to work in That meme
That moment when you realise the traffic isn’t as bad as it should be for 8.30am and you think there may have been some kind of doomsday event that you didn’t catch on the morning news. That moment...
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