Used Books
Used books don't stink, even if the prior owner was a smoker and a hoarder. But you have to treat them right. Here's how. Also, a book recommendation (image left).
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Month: November 2013
Question: Interested in a website dealing with organizing creativity specifically for science?
I'm thinking on doing a website about working in science. Signal your interest by voting. Note: Voting is done -- the "yes" have it.
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Scientific Community #4 — Concluding Remarks
Summary and three crucial issues when it comes to (correctly) seeing science as social endeavor.
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Scientific Community #3 — Analyzing the Literature to find out more about the Community
If you want to get into a scientific community without having a supervisor or colleague helping you along, you're pretty much screwed. But there are some things you can do.
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FIRE Webinar — Free Speech Walls and Beyond: Promoting and Defending the First Amendment on Campus
Some comments on a great web-seminar, free speech walls and free speech zones, and a few general ideas.
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Scientific Community #2 — Getting Into the Community the Right Way
Tips on getting into the scientific community include some things about yourself, your presentation, supervisors, conferences and more.
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Scientific Community #1 – The Scientific Method is People
Science is people, not a method. Some needed information for young scientists, including emotions and the benefits that, after a while, scientists die.
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Practitioner Talk in an Academic Setting
Listening to a person who left Academia to do more practical work showed me how narrow the Academic world-view is. Some notes of the talk.
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Dealing with hindsight-bias: Or, how to avoid people telling you that it wasn’t that hard to do once they hear the solution.
Sometimes you find out things that seem obvious in retrospect. Here are a few ways to deal with this situation to avoid cheapen your work and get others to think and see.
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Ideology and Laws
A few comments on a quota for women (for high status jobs only of course), and why it is a very, very VERY bad idea (to put it nicely).
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