With a title like that you’re probably expecting a detailed, sophisticated analysis of every newspaper output and blog post in multiple languages worldwide. Unfortunately, no. It’s a deliberate homage to the dramatic titles used by everyday posters that end up either being about nothing or written by ChatGPT. Almost every […]
Year: 2025
Infinite Anthologies featuring Vintage Science Fiction Items using Omeka S is now online
So, after discussing this with my supervisors it was decided that, for me to clearly represent the work I’m doing in my PhD thesis I need to get the InfiniteAnthologies.com site started with some basic information. I was advised that, being a digital humanities PhD component that Omeka S would […]
Omeka S Learning Curve and InfiniteAnthologies.com
I’ve recently learnt that Omeka S is the platform ideal for humanities related projects. I originally installed the basic Omeka that comes with cpanel to test that but that didn’t work well at all, so was eager to try out Omeka S. However, after 20 years of using WordPress, I’m […]
Global Awareness or Cosmic Awareness?
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 […]
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 Generative AI such as ChatGPT and Other Large Language Models (Updated 2025)
I’ve been using ChatGPT for two years now and have seen a dramatic improvement in its capacity to write. It has become one of my supervisors in many ways, as the questions I might ask one of my supervisors I can put to ChatGPT instead, saving everyone time. However, 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 […]
