We Australians excel at remembering and celebrating our sporting heroes, from cricketers to particularly successful race horses, but are not so good at celebrating the great people who helped build our civilization, particularly when those builders are Australian. Today, I want to celebrate the birthday of a revolutionary Australian engineer, A. G. M. Michell. … Continue reading Great Australians — Anthony Michell
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Stop telling me to "get a real job": PhDs drive economic growth, as well as the progress of human knowledge As a PhD student, questions I am often asked very shortly after “What do you do for a living?” include “What’s the point of that?” and “So when are you going to get a real … Continue reading The Value of a PhD
David Gozzard 