Doing Science – Page 4 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

One Tip for Leaving Your Comfort Zone

2024-02-03

Anne Lamott's tip «Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.» is applicable to a wide variety of situations.
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ChatGPT as Counsellor

2024-01-29

ChatGPT is astonishingly good in taking the role of a counsellor.

Image: Ezri Dax from «Star Trek DS9» via https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Ezri_Dax
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ChatGPTs Essay on «I am a scientist because science brings me closer to something greater than myself»

2024-01-27

Asking ChatGPT to write an essay on the theme of «I am a scientist because science brings me closer to something greater than myself.».

Image from «Mass Effect: Andromeda» (cropped).
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Giving Feedback to Student Texts with R and Obsidian Templates

2023-12-04

Might be an overkill, but makes giving feedback to student writing a bit less sucky.
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Reformatting Books with Affinity Publisher

2023-12-03

If you have found texts, incl. books, online that are in a bad quality — why not reformat them for better reading?
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Obsidian – Using Literature Entries

2023-12-03

Quick R script that assists in using summarized literature in Obsidian.
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University Research and Commercial Use

2023-12-03

Short comment on university inventions and military/commercial use. Image from «Alpha Centauri».
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Universities as Gyms

2023-12-03

Beautiful metaphor for free speech on college campuses.
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Photocopying Kindle Books?

2023-10-28

Well, not actually photocopying them, but a very similar approach.
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Sentence Numbering with Microsoft Word for Texts in Law

2023-10-11

For some texts, e.g. for some laws, the sentences have to be numbered, e.g., with superscript numbers. It's possible to do this relatively quickly with Microsoft Word.
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A comment for those seeking to use this site for personal gain: Given the increase in requests, let me be clear. I write on this blog because I want to. It’s my hobby, my playground. Sometimes people point me to interesting products/services and I write about them. But any request regarding ads or sponsored placements ends up the trash without a reply. And if you think something would be of interest, differentiate yourself from the spammers by referring to a posting — in an intelligent way. (I get enough auto-generated mails to identify them immediately.)

BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.