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Tuesday, 10 March 2026

Military spending in the US by regional mean rank

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Ever since a quarter of a century ago when I read Trotskyist magazines arguing that if all military spending were scrapped and the rich prop...
Monday, 9 March 2026

How I got “pet room Archie’s”!

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This evening looking at my unfortunate — if at times hilarious as when “Dick Tyldesley” was corrected to a body part — history of tampering...
Sunday, 8 February 2026

A parody and a true cricket tale

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Over recent months, I have repeatedly sang this song (or variations) to my brother: “Modern batsmen have a pitch Ninety percent rigged And o...
Tuesday, 9 December 2025

Victor Conrad’s missing data

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Ever since reading Robert Dewar and James Wallis’ ‘Geographical Patterning of Interannual Rainfall Variability in the Tropics and Near Tropi...
Friday, 5 December 2025

VFL/AFL Grand Final Day temperatures, 1898-2025

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Ever since I studied the 1987 Grand Final in what was then Melbourne’s earliest 30˚C day on record, the relationship between the weather and...
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A former student at Melbourne and RMIT who hoped to get a job in librarianship by 2009. Be wary that I tend to have very specialised interests and often do not want too general questions. I enjoy reading about many difficult topics and would love to be able to discuss them with people who know more about them than people around me. I have a particular love for lists of “best” or “worst” music or books, and love statistics a great deal.
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