Daily Archives: 9 February 2013

(Talkin’ ’bout) my generation

Someone, somewhere, has been viewing my LinkedIn profile. I know this, see, because I’ve had a couple of calls and emails from various recruitment agencies, and I’ve seen that recruitment ‘specialists’ have left their footprints all over LinkedIn. One of … Continue reading

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Gantt charts, work plans and funding research

I spend four hours yesterday making a chart. Really. It was a Gantt chart. For those of you not familiar with a Gantt chart this is what they look like:

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Experiments, hypotheses, volcanoes, newtons and free downloads

It’s been an exciting week of experiments: in the lab and at home for my son’s school science fair—and for the psychology of marketing. But I’ll come to that later. Let’s start at the annual school science fair. An elementary … Continue reading

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