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Daily Archives: 10 November 2012
More local history – the lime kiln
Pioneer lime kiln, Mountsberg, Ontario – 120 format film and the 1937 camera I’ve occasionally written about getting out and about and exploring local history, here in the southeastern part of the Province of Ontario. This is something I should … Continue reading
Is science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) the big winner of the US elections?!
Let me start off by offering my utmost congratulations to the statistician-bloggers who predicted the outcomes of the US elections with startling accuracy. The methodical and scientific approaches of using poll aggregates with statistical variables introduced in a wholly scientific … Continue reading
Posted in akin, drew linzer, education, fivethirtyeight, humor, losers, mourdock, myth busters, nate silver, Obama, presidential elections, princeton election consortium, Research, romney, sam wang, science, science stem, senate races, votamatic
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To Begin at the Beginning
It seems obvious: any piece of writing should have a beginning, a middle and an end. But how often have I heard the lack of structure moaned about by those folk who have to read some prose, in particular supervisors … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Girton College, PhD, prose, Research, Thesis
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An unexpected delight in the form of careers advice
Fellow Occam’s Typewriter blogger Jenny Rohn‘s book on sale at ASHG 2012. This week I am attending the 62nd meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics here in San Francisco. Being a PhD student, I registered for several of … Continue reading
Posted in ASHG2012, careers, Life, networking, PhD, science careers
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