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John Wilkins is an eternal student, who thinks philosophy of biology is at least as interesting as politics or sport and twice as important. He has a PhD from the University of Melbourne and worked at the University of Queensland, in Australia, before taking up a research fellowship at the University of Sydney. After a varied career, involving factories, gardening, civil service, publishing, graphics, public relations but not, unfortunately for the CV, driving a truck, John finally completed his thesis on species concepts in 2004, which he has worked into two books.
This blog is designed evolved to host any random thoughts that happen to be passing through my forebrain at a given moment. So there will be errors...
I also have an Australia-focussed blog: The Drought Resistant Philosopher
The previous instantiation of this blog is accessible here.
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Posted on: December 6, 2008 9:38 PM, by John S. Wilkins
I just love this:
Cambridge University's Space Flight club got local school children to make space suits for these teddy bears, which were attached to a helium balloon that rose to 30km, enough to see the curvature of the earth. All teds were recovered safely. I expect Prof. Steve Steve to take the next flight up...
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Comments
Can't you see the curvature of Earth just by standing on the beach and looking at the horizon - or by going out at sunset and looking east to see the shadow of Earth on the sky?
Having said that, I remain envious of the teddies!
Posted by: Ian | December 8, 2008 8:21 AM
Everyone there looks they're having fun. Weeeeee!
Posted by: Chris L | December 10, 2008 7:27 PM