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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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