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6 days ago · Cixin Liu: The Three-Body Problem This (with its sequelae The Dark Forest and Death’s End) evokes nostalgia for SF stories of an earlier age, from authors such as Arthur C. Clarke.It starts in 1967 when a young girl, Ye Wiejie, witnesses her father, a physics professor, beaten to death by high-school students during the Cultural Revolution.
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6 days ago · As is my habit my favourite photographs from the year just past can now be found on an album on Flickr. There are sixty-three in all, selected from a total of about 1800 which is quite a drop from my …
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Dec 8, 2024 · When I first started writing this blog in 2010, I imagined I was going to write about the science that interested me, the latest papers in my field that caught my eye, and specifically highlight the excitement and challenge of …
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5 days ago · With a handful of notable exceptions, my book reading in the past year has not been an altogether happy experience. I worked my way through 18 titles in all, work being the operative verb in many cases.
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Dec 30, 2021 · Continuing the theme of gently exercising the writing muscle by composing posts made mostly of pictures, I present here the round-up of what I think are the best photographs that I took in the past year. 2021 has been a …
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Dec 17, 2024 · Well, it’s been about a week since the end of Taylor Swift’s monumental Eras Tour. Millions attended, and I’d presume that millions more, like me, never even got half a sniff at a ticket.
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Dec 22, 2024 · You could write an entire PhD thesis about how difficult it is for academics to relax on holiday. (And whoever’s writing it would be lying on the sofa by the Christmas tree right now, fretting about how they really ought …
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Occam’s Typewriter is a community project to bring together current and erstwhile scientists who like to write. We have all been blogging at various places over the years, independently and on networks.
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Dec 9, 2024 · When I was a child 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child… — from 1 Corinthians 13:11, NRSVA In school, I hated sports.
December | 2021 | Occam's Typewriter
Continuing the theme of gently exercising the writing muscle by composing posts made mostly of pictures, I present here the round-up of what I think are the best photographs that I took in the past year. 2021 has been a …