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Surplus ideas – April 2021
As I did for March, I’d like to share some ideas that I had over the past month that I doubt I’ll ever do anything with. Please feel free to take them and use them – just attribute me if Read more…
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Latching on to the last thing
I am not a politician. There’s lots of reasons for this, but one of them is that that I have a tendency to just believe the last thing that I heard[1]This is apparently a common memory bias known as the Read more…
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Surplus ideas – March 2021
It’s a common refrain in books that I’ve read about creativity that there’s no shortage of good ideas, and that the ideas are nothing without the execution. Another thing that I’ve read is that the more creative ideas that you Read more…
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Getting encouragement
One nice thing about keeping a blog (or, at least trying to) is that every so often something that you’ve written, or in this case, drafted, becomes relevant again. I’m currently being inspired by the fact that last month (sadly Read more…
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KerPlunk
When I was little, I always used to look forwards to the last day of school. Not just because it meant that the holidays were close, but because it meant we were allowed to bring in games. One year I Read more…
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Running my first ever online live comedy show
Early in December, my science comedy group, The Variables, ran our first ever online gig.. Although I used to run a science talk show on YouTube, this is the first time that I’ve ever done a live comedy show online, Read more…
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Who am I?
For starters, the kind of person who immediately wants to follow up the question “Who am I?” with lyrics from Les Miserables. I really enjoy singing, even though I’m not very good at it (this isn’t digging for compliments, I Read more…
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Successes
Lots of things I have done have been successes, but I’m rubbish at thinking of them as such. It’s almost a form of imposter syndrome – if I’ve done something, then clearly it can’t have been that hard. I think Read more…
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The final limerick
30 – Science ComedySome lectures are dry as a boneSo people just leave them aloneTo interest moreI won’t be a boreMy comedy skills I must hone
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My PhD in 11 limericks
For the next part of my attempt to write 30 Physics themed limericks in a month, I turned to some more recent inspiration – my own PhD! So here it is, years of work summed up in 11 limericks! Read more…
