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Physicist, researcher in photonics. Avid consumer of books and coffee. Professor and Head of Physics at UTS; all opinions are his own etc.
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It's because banh mi are totally awesome amp.abc.net.au/article/1052...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

A greatly underappreciated of Australian democracy: polls close and the result is known 3 hours later. Paper ballots, ranked-choice voting, no fancy tech needed. #AusVotes25

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Best thing about voting in Australia. #democracysausage

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

New paper shows that sound can move faster than the speed of light!* *Terms and conditions apply. pubs.aip.org/aip/app/arti...

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

This gets to the heart of a big problem with AI in education. Calculators and other tools outsourced the lower-level tasks to a machine. LLMs tempt students to outsource the higher-level tasks as well.

submitted 176 days ago • 0 comments

Physics vs. Magic xkcd.com/2904

submitted 454 days ago • 27 comments

Great to catch up with friends and colleagues at WOMBAT 5 in Brazil!

submitted 483 days ago • 0 comments

PSA: drinking a couple of beers does not improve the experience of watching Rebel Moon.

submitted 531 days ago • 0 comments

Voted this morning, but there was no democracy sausage! This also should be constitutionally mandated.

submitted 601 days ago • 0 comments

My german wife asked me to hide the Nutella from her, so I hid it where no German would ever find it.

submitted 602 days ago • 1 comment