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Three great things I came across this year

December 30, 2010
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I love lists. They can be arbitrary, but there’s something to them: a look back, before leaping into a new year. I’m a science writer and researcher, arts broadcaster and music obsessive, and a compulsive reader, so there is a  lot to draw on. So I focussed on three great things I came across this year and haven’t been able to stop talking about: Tipping Point, Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and Brisbane’s Other Film.

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Review: Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky

December 12, 2010

Madeleine Preston lives in Potts Point. She paints, draws, illustrates, does printmaking, media art, sculptures, installations and public art: “Whatever medium or method works with the idea.” She’s been in 30-something group shows and made the beautifully nostalgic Darlinghurst Eats Its Young blog. She teaches art too. Madeleine comes up with ideas, and turns them [...]

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Digging Charles Jencks’ black hole garden

December 10, 2010

A black hole garden? Gravity is a law of nature. Electromagnetism, the four forces—those sort of things are nature and they underpin all of growing nature. And so a garden is a really interesting place to speculate on the ultimate forces of nature and laws of nature and constants, and that’s what I do with [...]

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Reading #3

November 21, 2010

Thinking about ideas is all about imagining a future, and that’s something Kristin Alford has lots of experience doing. When I caught up with her for ramen last week in Sydney, we talked through nanotech, climate science, books, data visualisation, Synapse and the Australian Network for Art and Technology (Kristin’s on the board), and the [...]

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This is a new thing

November 14, 2010

It’s been a slow and fast process realising that far from heading away from each other, my obsessions for science and technology, art, music and creativity were actually closing in on something interesting. It came to a head last weekend, actually the one over a week ago, when the Tipping Point art/science juggernaut rolled through [...]

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