Iceland’s volcano and Aurora Borealis
I've never seen an aurora, but I'd love to. HT Three Quarks
Festival of German Films 2010 – part 2
It's been a Fatih Akin blitz this week, having watched his new comedy and two older films - a music documentary and his dramatic feature...
The stupid party
During the Hawke years one conservative columnist used to bemoan the lack of professionalism of the right in Australian politics. I don't much read columns...
Amartya: I couldn’t have put it better
Even if I would have choked on my Weeties that the New Statesman presumably thought this picture looks like Adam Smith. The economist manifesto, by...
Octopus steals my video camera and swims off with it (while it’s Recording)
True - at Three Quarks here.
How to teach
Salman Khan's Khan Academy is an amazing labour of love, if you haven't come across it. Over a thousand video tutorials, each around ten minutes...
Beneath Hill 60: go if you want to see a film
It wasn't in any deliberate attempt to celebrate Anzac Day last night that I went to see Beneath Hill 60. (My spellchecker wants me to...