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Me in six words (a meme)

The rules of the game can be read over here. The idea is to write a six word autobiography, or memoir, then “tag” five other bloggers to do the same. I was tagged by the tea-rrific Pepsoid at The Art of Tea.
The idea is deliciously ridiculous. How can one possibly summarise even a day of [...]

The long view of our night view

Scientific American have surpassed themselves again with a beautiful slideshow taking the long view of how the night sky seen from Earth has changed in the past and will change in the future. The images themselves are striking as works of art, but what really hits home is the brevity of recorded human history in [...]

Problem solving

I follow the sage advice contained in a text which with every reading reveals new layers of nuance and meaning, new depths which I have barely plumbed. The book is called “Mr. Happy finds a hobby”, by that master Roger Hargreaves. The relevant page reads
It was whilst drinking a cup of tea the next morning [...]

Blox update: 4!

Elsewhere I’ve suggested adopting Hersch’s h-index to give a rough measure of the extent to which readers of a blog are drawn into the conversation. In this way, a blog’s blox is the number of posts which have at least that number of comments (including those from the author of the post). A lot of [...]

A move from Vox

Posts older than this one were imported to WordPress from Vox.

Blog Index - Blox

Jorge Hirsch recently proposed An Index to Quantify an Individual’s Scientific Research Output that reveals much more about how important that individual’s work is than merely looking at her output. It garnered quite a bit of attention, and has begun to be applied in different ways. The idea is simple: the h-index is the whole [...]