Ian Timaeus

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Chapeau, sir.

Demography may be unique in needing the insights of both those who think involution is about the history of rice cultivation in Java and those who think it's f(f(x))=x.

Ironically, you couldn't be more wrong! A number of East Europeans who trained as rocket scientists before the collapse of the rocket-science job market instead became first-rate demographers. I would mention, in particular, Vladimir Shkolnikov, who was educated at the Moscow Aerospace Institute.

There's lots for all demographers (OK, a few of you probably know it all already) to ponder on in this paper. #demography

What is Michaelangelo's David good for? Sierra llama is a beautiful equation. Sure, it has applications, but the world needs more beauty. And the generalization to variable growth rates - it sends shivers down the spine. A profound account of population dynamics encapsulated in a single equation.

My apologies. It was after midnight when I posted (obviously) and I was evidently too tired to be doing so. I just want to reassure you that it's not at all the case that anyone in Europe has somehow developed the crazy notion that nobody American bothers to read our offerings anyway.

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, is a llama (4 for me).

Also in the Emergency Room I discovered on Sunday night, though it might rather spoil things if you yourself happened to be the emergency.

Got it in 3 - I knew that bioanth minor would come in useful one day.

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Doesn't help. The Noisy People's needs trump that.

Best to quickly shuffle out of your crease, plant your front foot, and drive that issue past mid-off for six. Or is that a particularly English academic thing?

It is a lovely piece, but a cricket ball is hard and heavy and can come flying at the batsman at over 90mph in the first-class game. You have to grasp what it takes to face that to appreciate the drama of the duels fought on that large green lawn.

I only got ten but it's not about being one of the cool kids at school is it, so that's fine, really it is, just fine.

My parents fled the eastern hemisphere when I was six but we lived in the borderlands to the south of London and there were even a few "Ossis" at my secondary school, though we mostly treated them the same as normal children.

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That's tealighting. I may have to rink you.

OK, but it's scenarios that need an ISO standard. Somebody really ought to do something about scenarios.

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Perhaps he might lose interest in Greenland if they were to try wearing sombreros whenever the foreign TV crews show up.

I thought it might be that.

I'm just an ignorant limey, so why is it he doesn't envisage Mexico becoming the 52nd State?

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After years of low-level hostilities and border incidents, war has broken out inside my phone as to whether Adobe or Microsoft get to display pdfs. My efforts at peace-keeping have been about as much use as those of the UN Security Council. Is this somehow to do with Trump?