Lazy blogging today, but I thought I’d use a profile I put together for a work magazine. It was quite fun to put together. My favourite energetic pursuit: Triathlons (although it’s been over a year since I did one) My favourite meal: Pancakes and maple syrup on a Sunday morningContinue Reading
There’s been an interesting set of posts started by Elizabeth at Half Changed World about how people choose their childrens’ school. Jody at Raising Weg had a very thoughtful post about the choices she made for her children. So I thought I’d give it a go. My theory is that theContinue Reading
Last night I watched a piece of highbrow fluff on the ABC – The Worst Jobs in History – the Dark Ages. I usually like watching Tony Robinson – best known as Baldrick on Blackadder – but I found this program profoundly irritating. At a time when most people livedContinue Reading
I was talking to a colleague the other day about his children. They’re in their teens. He said that the single biggest issue he and his wife argue about is how to deal with their affluence. Not only is the whole of society enormously richer than we were thirty yearsContinue Reading
I was born (in the UK) a few days before the Israeli six-day war broke out and my mother was born (in London) a few days after the retreat from Dunkirk. So we’ve got a bit of history, in our family. Chatterboy was born here in Australia on September 13, 2001. Although it didn’t feel asContinue Reading
Last weekend, I went to see 49 UP – a fascinating documentary made in Britain that has filmed people every seven years from the age of 7. I first saw the series when it was 28 UP – which makes me feel old itself, but it didn’t have quite as bigContinue Reading
Terence Tao, a 31 year old Australian who is a maths professor at UCLA, has just won the Fields medal for mathematics. Its been described in all the articles I’ve read as the mathematics equivalent of the Nobel – not quite, from what I can see – just as rare (fourContinue Reading
I came across this concept in two completely different areas recently – Flow, as described by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Basically, a mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing, characterized by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in theContinue Reading
It’s census time, and, frustrated statistician that I am, I was very excited to see the form on my doorstep last night. Last census, I was 8 months pregnant with C, and we were a couple with two very demanding jobs. This census, we have two children, and one full time andContinue Reading
My cousin’s in the International Maths Olympiad, which is currently on in Slovenia. It’s a competition for those who are under 20, haven’t been to university yet, and with those conditions, are the top mathematicians in their countries, and hence the world. Six contestents per country. After we found theContinue Reading
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