Introduction

Hi folks, here's a quick background post on what I'm looking to do with this blog:

I'm interested in reading academic papers on a range of different subjects.  I think it would be great if academic work was circulated more widely, and for more general interest.  Academia does great work in performing this research, and sharing it with everyone.
But these papers can be quite daunting, which puts a big barrier in the way of reading them.  What I'd like to do here is provide quick snippets of what I found interesting in different papers.  I'm not an expert in any of these fields, and what I find interesting is probably quite different from where the research interest lies.

I guess the key thing I'd like to take away from it is that a general interest reader can get plenty out of academic writing, and that all this knowledge is out there for anyone who's curious!