Doing Science – Page 42 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Short Series about Science: #3 Personal Opinion vs. ‘Facts’

2012-12-08

There's a huge difference between an opinion and a fact. And yup, scientists can have opinions, as long as it does not creep into a fact. Read on, I am of the opinion that it might be worthwhile, and that is a fact.
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Short Series about Science: #2 Theories

2012-12-08

If you work in science or deal with it, you are confronted by theories. But what are theories and why are they so important and incredibly useful? Some answers.
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Short Series about Science: #1 Key Strengths

2012-12-08

The very basics of science -- how it corrects itself (or rather: the scientists do), and how this sometimes requires a few corpses. Great reading.
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Two blogs to subscribe to if you are interested in Science

2012-12-07

Two very good blogs about scientific misconduct. Well worth subscribing if you work in science, or want to keep science on its toes. [Update: One of the blogs was shut down.]
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Flawed Science — Or: Where do we go from here?

2012-12-06

Comment on the scientific misconduct case by Mr. Stapel, what it means for science, and that a wage of 18333€ per hour is perhaps a bit high for doing community service.
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Interesting Posting about Doing Science

2012-12-06

There are inspirational researchers working in science still -- a link to someone who gives a shout-out to these researchers.
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PhD Comics’ What is Open Access?

2012-10-26

As a scientist, you want your work to be read. Open Access is an interesting way to make it happen. A great video by PhD Comics explains how.
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Workshop: Scientific Work — Positions & Advisers

2012-09-05

Perhaps the most important criteria that determines ones' success in science in the beginning: Which job you take and who advises you. I so wish I had known this earlier.
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Seeing your scientific discipline with laymen’s eyes

2012-08-17

A reference to a paper about the science of spilled coffee and what you can learn from it -- no, not about the coffee.
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Workshop: Scientific Work — Requirements

2012-08-11

What are the requirements to work in science? They might not be that obvious -- here are some.
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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.