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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