Weekly Wrap 708: I transform myself for Christmas with a quiz and a podcast and two uncooperative cats, plus some AI

Stilgherrian Christmas

My week of Monday 18 to Sunday 24 December 2023 was a suitably productive wind-down for the 2023 working year. A fun quiz. An interesting podcast. The usual Friday blog post. And positioning myself for a Christmas period of cat-sitting down in Sydney.

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The 9pm Purpose of Space and the Gravity of the Situation with Dr Alice Gorman and Rami Mandow

Left: Dr Alice Gorman. (Photo: Simon Royal/ABC) Right: Rami Mandow. (Photo: Supplied; Post-processing: Stilgherrian)

Today we look back at the year in space. My special guests are space archaeologist Dr Alice Gorman aka Dr Space Junk from Flinders University, and astrophysicist and founder of SpaceAustralia.com Rami Mandow.

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Weekly Wrap 704: Working gently in the background and encountering the Pigeon of Dignity

A grey and white pigeon is perched on a postbox, looking quizzically into the camera lens.

The highlight of my week of Monday 20 to Sunday 26 November 2023 was really stupid. I ended up in The Mediaâ„¢ again, this time because I’d posted on the socials about Microsoft’s Bing Search telling the world that Australia didn’t exist. So, so stupid.

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