What's a blog?

What's a blog? - A blog is a personal diary. Your pulpit every day. Political soapbox. News outlets. Collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Note to the world. Your blog is whatever you want. There are millions of blogs, in all shapes and sizes,...

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X-People

Perhaps you have heard the expression, "If you want something done, ask a busy person." Some people are able to get a lot done, and adding one or four more things to the list doesn't slow them down. Let's call this type of person Type W.Then there are...

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Complaining Early & Often

While serving on a particular review committee at my university, I have seen many examples of negative comments in teaching evaluations for problems that seem like they could easily have been fixed during the course if only the professor knew there was...

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Everything I Say Might Be Important

The other day, while working intensely on editing a document in a cafe, my attention wandered for just a moment (or two) and I tuned into a nearby conversation between two undergrads. One of them said something like this:I hate Professor X. He never...

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Proto-Broader Impacts

As I've described in previous posts, I am on board with the mandatory "broader impacts" aspect of NSF grant proposals, and I think that activities beyond the basic doing-of-the-Science should be given some serious thought by researchers. I don't think...

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May The Blog Be With You

For some reason that I don't understand but that I really appreciate, I've recently received a number of extremely nice e-mails from readers saying that they have "grown up" (professionally) with my blog and have found it useful. I find this fascinating...

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Honestly..

Sometimes I forget that I also have a blog over in Scientopia. This is probably not a good thing. I am a bad Scientopian. But today I decided to post something over there. I have been mulling this one over for a while, alternately thinking "I'm not going...

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