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Archive for November, 2010

Population: will we just disappear?

Monday, November 22nd, 2010 Posted in Politics, Profession, Public Interest | 2 Comments »

Last week on ABC insiders, the discussion briefly turned to population policy and its role in the previous election. Kerry-Ann Walsh (former Herald-Sun journalist, now semi-retired and occasional opinion writer ... Read more..

Mathematics as a silly exercise in pedantry

Friday, November 12th, 2010 Posted in Profession, Public Interest, Teaching | 2 Comments »

Mathematics is a fairly formal business. But those who 'get it’ realise that there is meaning behind the formalism, that it is not a matter of just shunting symbols around ... Read more..

The worst statistical summary ever?

Monday, November 1st, 2010 Posted in Graphics, Public Interest | 4 Comments »

A recent article in the Age pointed out that Melbourne's dams are approaching 50% capacity for the first time in 4 years.  They included a time series of % storage for ... Read more..