Currently I am looking for a particular thread that can pass through all 7 (possibly later 8) chapters in my PhD thesis. While all the chapters are connected with facts, I haven’t hit on one theoretical framework to link everything together, and I’m still looking at descriptions of content rather […]
Year: 2025
Evolution of Intelligent Life
One of the incentives for some readers of science fiction is the opportunity to imagine a universe of alien civilizations – conceive in their mind’s eye many intelligent beings with completely different body forms, cultures, worlds, inventions and maybe even compatible food and drink sensations. It is the impetus for […]
Maintain Academic Integrity while using ChatGPT and Other Large Language Models
I’ve been using ChatGPT for 2 years now and have seen a dramatic improvement in its capacity to write. It has become my supervisor in many ways, as the questions I might ask one of my supervisors I can put to ChatGPT instead. However, Academic Integrity must be maintained. It […]
The First Appearance of the Word Scientist in an Australian Newspaper
You may not be aware that ‘scientist’ is a made up word. It was created by the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, England in 1834 by William Whewell as a combination of scientia (latin for knowledge) and artist to describe a cultivator of science. Generally, it takes a generation before […]
