“There was a period of about three years (1987-1990), however, when it became fashionable for physicians to reduce the rather long MR imaging times by using anisotropically shaped (i.e., non-square) imaging pixels in studies of the spine. As it turned out, this resulted in a prominent dark line appearing within the spinal cord. The dark line was a Gibbs... Continue Reading →
My academic background is, um, interesting. I have the lumpy landscape of the autodidact who has fossicked here and there, but never built a proper opencast mine, with draglines and dumptrucks and so on. For my thesis (and possible future career?) I am going to need more methodology (how do we find out reliable and... Continue Reading →
I appear to be Learning. Instead of 13 articles to synthesise, this one only goes up to five. They’re listed below, and I’ll take them in the order I read them, which is mostly chronological. Dobel, A., Westberg, K. Steel, M. and Flowers, K. (2014) An Examination of Corporate Social responsibility Implementation and Stakeholder Engagement: A... Continue Reading →
It ain't rappers who invented misogyny in popular music, is all I'm saying- Who wants yesterday's papers Who wants yesterday's girl Who wants yesterday's papers Nobody in the world Rolling Stones “Yesterdays News” and that "happy" In the Summertime - You got women, you got women on your mind Have a drink, have a drive... Continue Reading →
[Update: I got it down to five papers for the next one, and four for the one after that!] Hmm, let this be a lesson to me. Nobody, probably even me, is going to read all of this. I need to do write-ups every three or four articles (which, given the amount I read, means... Continue Reading →
There was an episode of the 80s guilty-pleasure private eye show "Remington Steele" (starring Pierce Brosnan avant la 007) that has something to say about neo-institutional theory and economic sociology. Sort of. The episode, called "Steele Knuckles, Glass Jaws" (the titles always had a pun on steel/still) has a boxer is trying to stay in... Continue Reading →
Barry Jones was the Australian Science Minister between 1983 and 1990, and a key figure in the coming of climate awareness to that country. He is also a pretty smart guy (didn't help him as a politician, naturlich). Keynes said something different but similar - We needed to be transruptive [another of my shoddy neologisms],... Continue Reading →
The US Secret Service spends a lot of time thinking about how to keep the people they protect alive. Overall, they're pretty good at it. I remember reading an interview with one of them once, where she emphasised one of the core things. If you are being attacked, do NOT focus on winning the fire fight.... Continue Reading →
“Why so sad?” she said, as I walked towards her in a cloud of gloom. Millicent (not real name) is a young woman who works somewhere I go a lot. I don’t know what kind of contract she is on. It’s probably not zero hours (yet). She probably has shit terms and conditions that leave... Continue Reading →
Chap called Gavin Gilchrist wrote some corking articles back in the mid-90s, the documented the nuts and bolts of how the Howard Government took over the Keating/coal industry-inspired Australian climate retreat and turbo-charged it. The piece I am quoting from below [Gilchrist, G. (1996) "Climate Changes: Why We Are Seen As Rebels" Sydney Morning Herald 8th... Continue Reading →
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