On Friday I was invited to give a short presentation to UN Youth Australia on getting graduate positions. The slides are posted below....

A basic rule of mathematics is that it should seek to illuminate, not obscure. A complicated concept should be understandable by a...

Like many, I was disappointed with the Australian Government's decision to double tuition fees for students taking courses in humanities,...

I've decided to a release a few projects that I've worked on over the last year and a half. Most of these are better described as...

In January I attended a course on infectious disease modelling as part of the AMSI Summer School. The rapid spread of COVID-19 made this...

In a previous post, I received a comment which mentioned an interesting thought experiment: The China Brain. The idea goes as follows -...

In The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences Eugene Wigner declared 'The miracle of the appropriateness of...

In Western Australia it an offence to possess more than 50kg of potatoes, unless you are a member of the Potato Corporation. Challenging...

I've always liked book lists. That doesn't mean I can write them: advertising doesn't come naturally to me, and summaries are a lousy...

A slime mould is an amorphous blob of unthinking biological material, capable of extraordinary acts of creative planning and navigation....

Those that know me will know that I've run a couple blogs over the years - this marks the first time I've decided to do so under my own...