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What use is an unmade idea?

January 7, 2011
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The effort to develop your idea, prototype it, attract financial support can stop you doing anything. Those steps are critical in a commercial project. But when the alternative is an idea that disappears into the air, can an abbreviated process still make a contribution?

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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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[Reading #7] Changing cities

December 20, 2010
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It’s clichéd to talk about more people living in cities than not, but it’s a milestone.  The way our cities work is changing too. We used to measure them every handful of years in a census, but increasingly we can keep much closer tabs through real time studies of the flow of people and information. So how does that change things?

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What do you think?

December 15, 2010

Are you finding this blog interesting? It’s been up and running three weeks – I’d hold out asking until a month, but that will be just about Christmas and I’m sure commenting on a blog will be the last thing on anyone’s mind. What with all the eggnog, Christmas songs and time off. So the [...]

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