australia Archive

  • Me in Australia

    Australia: A Few Things Oprah Probably Won’t Tell You

    This post is going to sound negative – like I’m trying to convince you that visiting Australia is a bad idea. So let’s just clear the air now before we get too far into it: I love Australia and think it is one of the...

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  • Kuglehopf Cake

    Australian Food Revelations: Kugelhopf and Monarch Cakes

    One of my favorite things about travel is the eating part. I’m admittedly not very adventurous when it comes to trying meat things – I’ve yet to have kangaroo or any of the other critters that are eaten almost exclusively in Australia – but I’ll...

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  • Parkes Radio Telescope

    Seeing Australia Through Its Telescopes

    I took my first flight 12 years ago, when I was 22. I’d just started my Astrophysics PhD, and it was ‘my turn’ to head out to Australia to use one of the telescopes. The other members of my academic group never really seemed that...

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