Learning with the Fang

Congratulations to Professor Tanya Monro from the Centre of Expertise in Photonics at the University of Adelaide for winning the Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year.
According to this website, the prize was awarded at tonight’s Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science awards in Canberra. Following this link will give you more information on [...]

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Just watched Garrett Lisi on TED talks presenting a very hi level overview of his ‘exceptionally simple theory of everything’. Understood bugger-all of the mathematics (reminded me of the feeling in every physics lecture I attended at Uni!) but emerged with this thought rattling round my head ‘would an E64 framework be more powerful than [...]

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While doing research for the next episode of my TWAM podcast yesterday I had one of those very bizarre moments of web serendipity.
This scientific american podcast mentions an article on the emerging discipline of WebScience by Tim Berners-Lee and the ’scale-free’ nature of some internet networks.
Next in my listening playlist was this Ted talk from [...]

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Some things of interest noticed in the first week of October, 2008.
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CCK – Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Online Course Week#3 Discussion
Europe’s first ever science blogging conference held by Nature and the Royal Institution London (which was virtually attended and influenced by yours truly and the Bridge8 ladies)
An interview with Radio [...]

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