From the yearly archives: 2008

Closed Shop

By On October 31, 2008 · Leave a Comment

I was perturbed last Monday morning to receive an email aimed at the graduate students in one of the faculties here, instructing them to make sure that they are now all using the ‘new IP and commercialisation lab books’.

As far as I understand it, the aim of these books is to ensure that all [...]

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Open Access Day

By On October 14, 2008 · Leave a Comment

14th October 2008 has been designated the first Open Access Day. Many people will blog on the subject more eloquently than I, but here is my ‘syncro-blog’

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Telescopic Names

By On October 9, 2008 · Leave a Comment

I love the literal way many modern telescopes are named. There’s the ‘Very Large Telescope’, the ‘Multiple-Mirror Telescope’ and the proposed ‘Overwhelmingly Large’ (my personal favourite) and ‘Thirty [...]

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Nightmare awakenings

By On October 4, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Yesterday, a Cold War script written for broadcast in the event of a nuclear attack was published. The script was penned in the 70s by the BBC and the government, and was released by the National Archives.

Most mornings I [...]

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A blog about the blog

By On September 20, 2008 · 1 Comment

This is FuzzierLogic.com, home to this blog, and my research wiki. I have yet to decide what I will blog about, or how often, though my spare online time tends to be spent microblogging these days, so activity may be limited… or I may surprise myself.

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