Feb 1
I love my iPhone and I thought it might be helpful to others who use iPhones to list the top 10 apps that I find useful for research.
Gmail. It is easy to sync the native iPhone email app with your gmail account and this works pretty well for most purposes. But if you want to [...]
On Monday night I attended a lecture by Terry Tao on “Mathematical research and the internet”. Terry is Australia’s most famous mathematician, our only Field’s medalist, and one of the most active mathematical bloggers in the world. He has been described as the “Mozart of mathematics” for his remarkable precocity and prolific output. The slides [...]
Neil Postman was Professor of Communication at New York University until his death in 2003. He wrote many wonderfully insightful and thought-provoking articles and books about television, education, technology and childhood. I recently came across a speech he gave in 1998 on “Five things we need to know about technological change”. Here is an online [...]
