I highly recommend watching this talk from Harvard professor Steven Pinker: Communicating Science and Technology in the 21st Century. Check it out if you are interested in scientific writing or just in being a little more clear communicating your ideas through words.
I particularly enjoyed his good-natured ribbing of Strunk ...
read moreGabe of Macdrifter fame and I recently recorded an episode of his Generational podcast together. It really was a blast.
Go listen to us geek out on the tools I use for searching and organizing my notes on scientific literature. Hopefully you will hear something useful.
Link: Research Materials and ...
read moreAccording to Wikipedia, George Heilmeier is an marvelously successful American engineer who was a pioneer in the development of liquid crystal displays. I just noticed a post over on Ben Deaton’s blog Only a Model about a series of questions attributed to Heilmeier that can help focus and refine ...
read moreThe always amusing PhD Comics just posted an animated explanation of the issues surrounding academic publishing and the open access movement. This is an incredibly important issue in acadmia. We have allowed academic publishing to remain mired in the same basic business model for hundreds of years. This business model ...
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