I always set my alarm to a strange time. If I have to wake up at around 7:00am, I'll set it to something like 6:56, or 7:03. For some reason, I really don't like setting the alarm to the *exact* time I need to be awake at.

I'd be even more interested about how the implant in a woman's arm prevents pregnancy, to be honest. How does something in your arm affect everything else?

I'm torn between wanting to say the classic British "Cheerio, ol' chap!" and the Australian "no wuckers" here as a sign off (I'm Australian, too)

But hey, the one woman you know STILL doesn't count as "all the women in Europe that are potentially qualified". Just because you know one woman that doesn't want to do it, that doesn't immediately equate to NO ONE with two X chromosomes wanting to have a position on the board.

Funnily enough, she's actually Australian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Wilson (although she is doing a pretty decent British accent here!)

That's a fascinating article - I knew this stuff existed, but not on such a scale. As I teach in Australia, I would like to think that this happens less often here. But as the article says, I have also come across a few pieces of moderately good work from students who can barely speak the language. This pieces did…

I would have to agree with you re: plagiarism in Asia being common. A large percentage of the students we penalise for plagiarism are from Asia, or from Asian descent. It may also be a cultural thing - as you said, there's a fine line between 'copying' (which is a school curriculum thing) and 'plagiarising'. It would…

I live in Australia, so the university system might be a little different over here. There's a definite 'spectrum' of plagiarism, and measure are taken according to how 'bad' it is (at my university, anyway). For example, one of my students copied from another a few years ago on a 500 word personal piece - and as a…

I'm a teacher at a University, and have just received the first round of assignments from my students. We have a program that automatically detects plagiarism (which the students know - we tell them this) and yet one student handed in an assignment that was 80% plagiarised. They'd basically copied the majority of it…

respectfully disagree. Also, #trollpatrol

gifs! gifs! *flaps hands*

I just recently flew from Melbourne to Doha, and then Doha through to Stockholm. The mountains flying over northern Iraq and Turkey were magnificent - and the thousands of island that make up the Stockholm archipelago were unreal. The best way to see these islands are from the air, as there as so many, and each one of…

I love these sorts of discussions - I'm a post grad media student, and in class we've spent quite a bit of time on whether anything is actually 'original'. The main thing that I remember from these chats were that there was one theorist (I had to google the theories before I could find him) called Vladimir Propp, who…

No weiner jokes? Nothing?

Me too. I feel your pain!

Ugh. Perhaps.

The big bad world of the Internet. I have a similar pair, but not exactly the same.

You're actually spot on ;) I love cupcakes.

I own multiple pairs of combat boots, in multiple colours. Now, stereotypically, what does that say about me :P

I live in Australia, and have visited the Mayday Hills Lunatic Asylum several times. It's located in Beechworth, a former gold mining town in North East Victoria.