I was doing the weekly gorcery shop last night and in the fruit and vegie section of my local coles (Stanhope Gardens in Sydney) sitting beside the ordinary orange carrots which were $1.98/kg there were these deep purple/black root vegetables that looked like carrots.  Upon closer inspection they were called “Purple Carrots” and looked identical […]

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My partner Tala and I make it a point of trying the Seafood Chowder of any place that sells it in any country that we travel to. This post will be where we post what we think are the best Seafood Chowders in the world listed in order of deliciousness. 1) Tony’s – 27 Wellesley […]

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I am so angry!! Nothing is more aggravating that when you can’t find something. On this occasion, though I may add to the list later, I have been looking for two things: 1) Supplier of 400mL PET soft drink bottles in Sydney 2) Supplier of post mix coke syrup in sydney Visy, is supposedly one […]

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If you can learn one new thing every day pretty soon you will have a good broad base of knowledge on which to draw in order to help you through any problems that you might come across in life. I always tell my research students that science is all about solving problems, but more generally […]

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I went to see the International Premier of Lucy Simon’s new musical Dr Zhivago last Thursday (17th Feb, 2011) so thought I would write a brief review of it here.  This stage muscial is an adaptation of the 1957 novel of the same name (До́ктор Жива́го in Russian) by Boris Pasternak. There have been several […]

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I was on the microscope on Tuesday this week listening to past episodes of the Health Report, a radio program from Radio Natioinal about health related issues, and came across two episides from late January this year discussing Huntington’s disease. Part 1 (10th Jan 2011) Part 2 (17th Jan 2011) My research area is Parkinson’s […]

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On the weekend I made an extremely awsome 10 Year Plan to do list. There has been a lot of planning and designing of the 10 Year Plan such that it is now very elegant, and very achievable, but to date there has been too much planning of the 10 Year Plan and not enough […]

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Well I am back from a trip around New Zealand, a really spectacular place.  You could hardly get a country more suited to agriculture if you sat down and designed it your self.  Perfect weather, perfect soil (deep volcanic), perfect rain fall.  Everything is so green over there.  Anyway now that I am back, and […]

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Well as usual it has been a while since my last post. In the mean time it has also become 2011. I spent New Years this year camping on a beach on the East Coast of Tasmania near St Mary’s, though I am not sure of the name of the beach. While waiting for midnight […]

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The main thing that I don’t like about politics is that you too often have to choose between the lesser of two evils, when in reality you would rather have nothing to do with either of the choices you are presented with. Take the current upcoming federal election. There are only two parties in Australia […]

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