Swinburne University, my alma mater, has recently started publishing podcasts covering research programs at the university. It is often very difficult to keep abreast of research goings-on without keeping a constant reading program of appropriate journals. Even a lot of the journal articles I do read are too terse for …

I recently blogged about a great source of used books: Better World Books. I used them again to purchase a copy of Design Patterns and was presented with another excellent book replete with a bookmark. That's not really the topic of this entry... but I am getting there ;) I'm writing …

This article was originally prepared for the Self-Service Science Forum around 1997. It has been resurrected and brought into the Wikipedia age to replace all the broken links in the original. Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) Brief Biography Despite having an inauspicious schooling and a generally unsociable outlook, Isaac Newton …