Postings under ( science )

10 July 2010
We should retire the term "Postdoc"

27 May 2010
Beautiful arguments: Linus Pauling's triumphal calculation of the chemical bond

15 April 2010
The Religious Enclave in the House of Science

20 February 2010
Conference survival guide in downtown San Francisco

21 December 2009
You're Just Not that into Science

26 August 2009
The Lumpy Shape of Science Publishing in the not too Distant Future

14 July 2009
Releasing Scientific Software, Some Website Basics

29 May 2009
Final Figure Blues

18 April 2009
The attempt to reduce the Scientific Process to Computation

15 April 2009
Why I think the Plos Commenting System kinda sucks

13 March 2009
What our advisors do to us

13 March 2009
The social duty of tenure

11 December 2008
Some reflections on the tapping of Steven Chu for US Secretary of Energy

25 November 2008
Rainbow color spectrum in 2dplots considered useless

3 November 2008
First new particle in decades

21 October 2008
The Historical Mix of Tenure, Academic Freedom and Torture

17 October 2008
The Joy of a Citation Manager

15 September 2008
Dolphin birthing

16 July 2008
Science journal web design, done right

14 June 2008
Longevity in science

22 April 2008
Essential Computational Biology Clothing

17 April 2008
The business of drugs

14 April 2008
Academic Confidential

4 April 2008
On The Tacit Process of (Scientific) Discovery

30 March 2008
The Great Depression: college professors are up 33%

8 March 2008
Is there a physicist in the House?

28 February 2008
Fermilab physicist running for Congress in Dennis Hastert's old seat

21 February 2008
On the Visualization of Huge Chunks of Data

18 February 2008
Save your ass with a USB portble hard drive

17 January 2008
Retracing the ghost of Research Past

11 January 2008
Big Pharma fronts Anonymous Blog to Defend Big Pharma

11 January 2008
Nature in all its naked aged Glory

21 December 2007
Random nostalgic Science article

18 December 2007
Lifestyles of the Code and the Dutiful

5 December 2007
Oddee.com's list of 10 Most Bizarre Scientific Papers

15 October 2007
The Plasticity of the Human Face

14 October 2007
How the Scientific Publishing Industry Began to Eat Itself

9 October 2007
Overthinking, the curse of the rank beginner

11 September 2007
Translation of the PRISM press release

25 August 2007
This is Integrity in Science

22 August 2007
Accidentally kills circus elephant, gets published in Science

8 August 2007
How to Motivate Yourself towards Sex

26 July 2007
It is logically possible for science and celebrity-cool to commute

20 July 2007
Quick and dirty minimization

11 May 2007
Best way to control your Linux Cluster on a Mac

1 May 2007
Our Parallel future: an introduction to functional programming

28 April 2007
Extinct Rhinoceros in Borneo, but alive

18 April 2007
Visiting labs: Fake it until you Make it

31 March 2007
Why I think Python is good (as in granola) for the scientist who programs.

16 March 2007
How to do Great Science, by the great Richard Hamming

25 February 2007
Peer-review 2.0

24 February 2007
Our simian heritage

18 February 2007
Flow-chart: the seminar's kiss of death

3 January 2007
DecapiCones®: The economical mouse and rodent restrainer

3 January 2007
The Thoren 308 Caging System

11 December 2006
Credentials to run a South American country

30 September 2006
Art Schools versus Science Schools

19 September 2006
Self-referential promotion letter

16 September 2006
Best title in a Science magazine article, ever

15 September 2006
Glimpse into the glorious past (1665) of science

4 August 2006
Taxonomy of Exam Papers

2 November 2005
Cutting someone down with a smile

2 August 2005
You can't handle the truth

28 July 2005
Pop-sci tripe

30 April 2005
First glimpse of another planet

14 April 2005
The Wolf is really the friend of Tree

14 April 2005
Publishing Contract Land Mines

14 April 2005
Tourniqueting the financial bleeding at the NIH

14 April 2005
More Classic Science Done on Rats

3 April 2005
Hispanic high-school kids kicks MIT's ass

24 March 2005
Open access is spreading

19 March 2005
Classic Elephant Science Paper

19 March 2005
Classic Rat Science Paper

17 March 2005
Scientific Self-abnegation

15 March 2005
The Mr Tompkins Quantum Mechanics Assignment

14 March 2005
Science Pays, For Journal Publishers

2 March 2005
Romancing the Grad Student

15 January 2005
Cosmology or You're an Insignificant Dot in a Very Large Universe

20 May 2004
We're Number Two

9 May 2004
Drugs drugs drugs

15 January 2002
theory vs experiment

3 September 2010
Gang signs for Science