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Books

2013

Urinal-based Science Supervision 14/Jan

2012

Thoughts on Cal Newport's "Too Good to be Ignored" 20/Oct

Interview with a Rainman 27/May

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Doing big science: Brian Schmidt and his measurement of the accelerating universe 6/Mar

2011

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Intuition arises out of Mathematical Intractability 18/Jul

The Pain: Installing Matplotlib in Snow Leopard on a Mac 2/Jun

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Jargon: The Art of Naming Things 22/May

Solving the Commenting Problem for Science Articles 3/Mar

The Reification of Data: from the Printing Press to the Web-centric API 21/Feb

2010

Darwinian Evolution versus Neo-Darwinian Evolution 2/Dec

The Minimal Set of Equipment to do Computational Biology 8/Nov

The End of Natural Evolution 28/Oct

We should retire the term "Postdoc" 10/Jul

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

The Religious Enclave in the House of Science 15/Apr

2009

You're Just Not that into Science 21/Dec

The attempt to reduce the Scientific Process to Computation 18/Apr

2008

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Rainbow color spectrum in 2dplots considered useless 25/Nov

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The Historical Mix of Tenure, Academic Freedom and Torture 21/Oct

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Longevity in science 14/Jun

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On The Tacit Process of (Scientific) Discovery 4/Apr

Retracing the ghost of Research Past 17/Jan

2007

The Plasticity of the Human Face 15/Oct

How the Scientific Publishing Industry Began to Eat Itself 14/Oct

Overthinking, the curse of the rank beginner 9/Oct

How to do Great Science, by the great Richard Hamming 16/Mar

2006

Self-referential promotion letter 19/Sep

Randomly Entertaining Science Articles 16/Sep

2004

We're Number Two 20/May

2002

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theory vs experiment 15/Jan

2001

Taxonomy of Exam Papers 4/Aug

1996

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The Mr Tompkins Quantum Mechanics Assignment 15/Mar