Mostly Harmless Science Blog

If there were only one of us, we could have whatever habits we liked – that is, we could believe whatever we liked, according to the very...

Yesterday there was a little gathering at our immediate neighbours' house with more far-flung neighbours from half-a-dozen or so other h...

I joined the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) in 1989, as a second year student. I became a full member (MRACI) when I finished ...

It can be said that the PhD thesis is an artificial and pointless form of literature. Nobody ever reads a thesis for pleasure. Seldom is one...

Most universities with two or three letter abbreviations on their official logos use capital letters. We used to, too, until about five ye...

I wanted to speak against the fossil fuel divestment motion at the meeting of the NTEU (National Tertiary Education Union) in September 2015...

I have not been able to find out any details beyond what has been reported in the Oz ( behind paywall ), but having had a few peripheral in...

I thought I ought to cross-post this from my anonymous blog, since an anonymous declaration of faith is no declaration of faith at all. Yo...

I was very sorry to learn on the weekend from my Mum that Prof Bob Carter had died. I had not known before that he had actually been hired ...

I have some sympathy for people who believe dumb things just because everyone else does, but I find it very tedious arguing with them on the...

You know if you’ve had more than a cursory look at this blog that I am some way along the ‘sceptical’ continuum as far as Anthropogenic Gl...