Comments on: The future of historical research http://airminded.org/2008/01/01/the-future-of-historical-research/ Airpower and British society, 1908-1941 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:41:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brett Holman http://airminded.org/2008/01/01/the-future-of-historical-research/comment-page-1/#comment-67802 Brett Holman Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:22:40 +0000 http://airminded.org/2008/01/01/the-future-of-historical-research/#comment-67802 Alun: Hmm, you may have a point, though I'm not sure it would work with humanities postgrads. Science postgrads, sure, but their departments have lots of money (relatively speaking) and they can afford to spread the postgrads around in spacious climate-controlled offices, thus avoiding a singularity. I agree it's important to perform the experiment you suggest, though. Mike: We could move to the midpoint between Melbourne and Ottawa, stands to reason that should be nice and pleasant! CK: You're a different breed out there. I just looked up the BoM stats and Perth's annual average temp is nearly 5 degrees higher than Melbourne's! Well, that saves me from ever even considering applying for a job at UWA ... Alun:

Hmm, you may have a point, though I’m not sure it would work with humanities postgrads. Science postgrads, sure, but their departments have lots of money (relatively speaking) and they can afford to spread the postgrads around in spacious climate-controlled offices, thus avoiding a singularity.

I agree it’s important to perform the experiment you suggest, though.

Mike:

We could move to the midpoint between Melbourne and Ottawa, stands to reason that should be nice and pleasant!

CK:

You’re a different breed out there. I just looked up the BoM stats and Perth’s annual average temp is nearly 5 degrees higher than Melbourne’s! Well, that saves me from ever even considering applying for a job at UWA …

]]> By: CK http://airminded.org/2008/01/01/the-future-of-historical-research/comment-page-1/#comment-67745 CK Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:52:52 +0000 http://airminded.org/2008/01/01/the-future-of-historical-research/#comment-67745 Oh, for goodness sake Brett, stop your whining. We in Perth take temperatures like this in our stride (collapses). Anyhooow, you might want to pay a quick visit to this site http://wwar1.blogspot.com/ Oh, for goodness sake Brett, stop your whining. We in Perth take temperatures like this in our stride (collapses).

Anyhooow, you might want to pay a quick visit to this site http://wwar1.blogspot.com/

]]> By: Mike from Ottawa http://airminded.org/2008/01/01/the-future-of-historical-research/comment-page-1/#comment-67653 Mike from Ottawa Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:46:31 +0000 http://airminded.org/2008/01/01/the-future-of-historical-research/#comment-67653 If it helps, it is a cool, refreshing -15 (-25 with the wind chill) here in Ottawa, Canada today, so, on average, we're comfortable outside. If it helps, it is a cool, refreshing -15 (-25 with the wind chill) here in Ottawa, Canada today, so, on average, we’re comfortable outside.

]]> By: Alun http://airminded.org/2008/01/01/the-future-of-historical-research/comment-page-1/#comment-67627 Alun Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:37:08 +0000 http://airminded.org/2008/01/01/the-future-of-historical-research/#comment-67627 ...but hang on. Wouldn't this be an intelligent singularity? A concentrated point of infinite wisdom? Wouldn't it be able to work out a way of communicating beyond the event horizon? Better still, can we not test it by cramming a very large number of professors into an unhealthily small space? Purely in the interests of science and nothing to do with me needing a job soon. :) …but hang on. Wouldn’t this be an intelligent singularity? A concentrated point of infinite wisdom? Wouldn’t it be able to work out a way of communicating beyond the event horizon?

Better still, can we not test it by cramming a very large number of professors into an unhealthily small space? Purely in the interests of science and nothing to do with me needing a job soon. :)

]]> By: Brett Holman http://airminded.org/2008/01/01/the-future-of-historical-research/comment-page-1/#comment-67578 Brett Holman Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:56:37 +0000 http://airminded.org/2008/01/01/the-future-of-historical-research/#comment-67578 Oh, but that's an English thesis! Surely, a history thesis could never be unreadable ... Oh, but that’s an English thesis! Surely, a history thesis could never be unreadable …

]]> By: Alan Allport http://airminded.org/2008/01/01/the-future-of-historical-research/comment-page-1/#comment-67569 Alan Allport Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:54:44 +0000 http://airminded.org/2008/01/01/the-future-of-historical-research/#comment-67569 The thought of millions of unread (and probably unreadable) postgraduate theses disappearing into the ether seems <a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/node/48461" rel="nofollow">oddly reassuring</a> to me ... The thought of millions of unread (and probably unreadable) postgraduate theses disappearing into the ether seems oddly reassuring to me …

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