Melbourne again

Have been in Melbourne again, thus distracted. More later.

Radagast's Latest

I would like my faithful readers' comments on my latest ideas, but as they're either a 3MB file, or 12 pages of paper, they will be circulated by snail mail. If you're happy to get a 3MB email, please let me know.

A Map of Science

This article included a nice map of science (click for a larger 5MB version):

My research area sits nicely between Computer Science and the Social Sciences, as it should.

Fluffy Animal Psych Ward

OK, here is a strange one:

One can't help feeling sorry for the fluffy animals in this psych hospital. They've all been traumatised by their owners, who have treated them as things rather than people. As Kant says, we must always treat people as ends in themselves and not merely as means.

National Library of Australia

I've been doing some research at the National Library (finding information on, among other topics, the ecologist Charles Elton):

While you can't browse the shelves, access is fairly easy (with online requests), and you can get a coffee while they find your book.

However, I did wish that, like pluvialis, I could have been in the Bodleian at Oxford:

But, of course, I was! And it was closed -- an opportunity wasted.