Is it possible to be cynical enough? That’s one of those questions I ask myself occasionally (daily/hourly) and usually when I begin to chide myself for corrosiveness, along comes confirmation/warning that I haven’t even got to cynicism basecamp. The latest timely warning is "Ring a Ring Roses: Quality Journals and Gamesmanship in Management Studies." This... Continue Reading →
On the Stepper: #ImStickingwithTony (not). Tech history, Field -Configuring Events, normative utopia
Was on the stepper on Thursday, reading about the global coal trade (Thank you IEA Coal Information 2014 and World Energy Council survey.) And yesterday, reading about the Australian Coal Export industry (more on that soon). Today was broader, and perhaps more fun (!?) I started with a speech by the soon-to-be-former Prime Minister Tony... Continue Reading →
Stepper: Augmented miners, Academic games, reputational repair and rehearsing the apocalypse
Mix of what I read on the train yesterday and what I read on the stepper this morning; Bassan, J, Srivnivasan, V. and Tang, A. (2013) The Augmented Mine Worker: Applications of Augmented Reality in Mining CSC Australia Lots of good stuff here. It's a bit more complicated than sticking googleglasses on folks and hooking... Continue Reading →
On the Stepper: 13th January: Climate reports, Stockholm syndrome and Green Bans
On an "Australian science/politics in the 70s and onwards" binge at mo' (trying to be more systematic in my PhD reading). Garratt, JR, Webb, EK and McCarthy, S. (2011) Charles Henry Brian Priestley. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 57, 349-278. Didn't read all of this, but the bits that relate to his... Continue Reading →
On the stepper 11th January 2015: Wind power romance, past warnings, science hacks, climate histories
Trying to form a new habit – typing up what I read “as I go”. And connected to that, giving an account of what I read while on the stepper for 90ish minutes a day (mostly). The habit is not “fully bedded in” as a habit yet, but I refuse to use that as an... Continue Reading →
Reading on the Stepper: Coal, mentors, denial etc
Meditation and the Art of Writing. Yep. Should do that. I need my jedi mind tricks The Great Climate Change Denial Industry by Robert M Thorson Those Koch boys getting their money's worth; Leiserowitz proved this with an interesting turnaround regarding the public's first thoughts about climate change after being prompted. In 2007, only 7... Continue Reading →
Stepping up 14 December 2014: innovation, coal, the AGGG
Gonna see if insta-commenting helps me retain factoids post-reading-on-the-stepper... Finished off "Emerging challenges for science, technology and innovation policy research: a reflexive overview" (Research Policy 38,: 571-582. Brain stretching stuff – this, among others, was gold - "For example, Weick (1995) recounts a story told by the Hungarian Nobel Laureate, Albert Szent-Gyorti, about a small... Continue Reading →
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