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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Logic, What Logic?
This week I attended the Elizabeth Johnson lecture at the Institute of Physics, given by Mary Curnock Cook, chief executive of UCAS. Her topic was Gender Maps in Higher Education, and it explored the differences between male and female progression … Continue reading
Posted in education, Equality, gender pay gap, graduate premium, IOP, Mary Curnock Cook, Women in science
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A happy and healthy new year…
Being the Jewish New year (5772 since the world was created, of course), although I am totally secular, I find myself taking a couple days off my “Denisovich” lifestyle to visit with family. It seems that one of the main … Continue reading
Posted in colonoscopy, health, journalism, Medicine, obesity, physicians, Research, science, screening, tests
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Dr. Strangehabits, or: how I learned to stop procrastinating and write my thesis
Athene’s recent post about how students write their PhD theses (plus frequent keyword search hits to my blog on the same subject) served as a long-overdue reminder that I’d promised to share my own thesis writing experiences. Some of the … Continue reading
Conversations With My Agent About E-Books
A year ago they were rarer than a very rare thing. There were more of them six months ago, but now they are everywhere – rare is the commute in which I don’t see at least one, and, notwithstanding inasmuch … Continue reading
Posted in before the backbone, Books, ereaders, in search of deep time, jacobs ladder, publishing, Technicrox, the hobbit movie, the lord of the rings, the science of middle earth, tolkien, Writing & Reading
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It Has Not Escaped Our Notice #6
Just dropped in for a byte…
Posted in bacon and eggs, internet, Silliness, Technicrox, waiter there's a fried egg on my terminal
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Announcing: the first documented Occam’s Typewriter scientific collaboration
I am very pleased to announce–after many months of work, revisions, and re-revisions–(to the best of my knowledge) the first scientific collaboration born out of Occam’s Typewriter. After all, in addition to all the peripheral fun of being a scientist … Continue reading
Posted in collaboration, journal, peer review, publication, Research, revisions, science
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A momentary lapse of reason—Chapter Twelve
Chapter Eleven The Interview Toni wanted to laugh. It was absurd: how could the scientist miss the whole thing; the shouting, the air so heavy with emotion? “Doesn’t seem like it, does it?
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2011-2012 Hockey Pool!
Back by popular demand! (Lavaland asked in person at Saturday night’s Canucks-Ducks pre-season game, and ScientistMother asked on Twitter this morning. They’re both popular, right?!)
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The Maison Des Girrafes Caption Competition #353
Pictured recently in Leipzig, at the memorial to Felix Mendelssohn.
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Perusing the Papers [12]
Last night, having rounded off a busy week with a day of manual labour helping to repair my mother-in-law’s kitchen floor, I retired to bed early with the newspaper. Saturday’s Guardian, if you want to know. It was delightful. I … Continue reading
Posted in communication, Newspapers, Scientific Life
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