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tcpipSeveral years ago I watched the modern science thriller "Gravity (2013)" on the small screen as in-flight entertainment and thought how wonderful it would be to see it on the big screen. Well, this evening I had that opportunity with Martin P., as we saw it at iMax in 3D. It really was everything I hoped for; hard science, the beauty of space, and the absolute disorientating terror of the environment. It follows another evening of aesthetic entertainment, as Liana F., and I visited Connection at Lume for the second week in succession with its rather amazing collection of immersive indigenous art and music. This time we also dined at the in-house restaurant, Mirri.
Last weekend I attended the Voice rally in Melbourne, an optimistic and powerful march of some 30,000 people. Meanwhile the cooker-wing of the "No" campaign had their own rally in the city today, attended by a few hundred conspiracy theorists and Neo-Nazis. In a much less partisan position, the ABC has produced a really simple handy guide on what the constitution and the referendum actually is (it's a handy response to my own survey that more than 97% of "no" voters, didn't know what the amendment was.
This week I have also received some feedback from the first round of assessment in the second trimester for my climatology degree. My paleoclimatology essay on the Younger Dryas and Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) received a B - the content was A grade, and the writing was a C - it's not the first time I've encountered an academic assessor who has struggled with my style. On the other hand, my annotated bibliography for climate change mitigation in the Pacific received an A+. I am still waiting for the results of international climate change policy, and climate adaptation. Hopefully these will be received soon.
Last weekend I attended the Voice rally in Melbourne, an optimistic and powerful march of some 30,000 people. Meanwhile the cooker-wing of the "No" campaign had their own rally in the city today, attended by a few hundred conspiracy theorists and Neo-Nazis. In a much less partisan position, the ABC has produced a really simple handy guide on what the constitution and the referendum actually is (it's a handy response to my own survey that more than 97% of "no" voters, didn't know what the amendment was.
This week I have also received some feedback from the first round of assessment in the second trimester for my climatology degree. My paleoclimatology essay on the Younger Dryas and Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) received a B - the content was A grade, and the writing was a C - it's not the first time I've encountered an academic assessor who has struggled with my style. On the other hand, my annotated bibliography for climate change mitigation in the Pacific received an A+. I am still waiting for the results of international climate change policy, and climate adaptation. Hopefully these will be received soon.
Stranger than Fiction
Date: 2023-10-28 03:55 am (UTC)https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59299101