Recommended reads #35
* Papers that triumphed over their rejections. How world-changing papers by Fermi, Krebs, Higgs, Margulis, Brockman, Mullis and more were rejected
Active learning is flexible and designed to reach the reticent
I’ve gotten positive feedback about a post in which I explain how it’s not that much work for
Where do you eat lunch? And does it matter?
Lunch culture seems to vary a lot from place to place.
I will admit to sometimes eating lunch at my
This device can improve your quality of life
It’s easier to get work done if we use time efficiently and work to stay healthy. If I had
Efficient teaching: Doing active learning an easy way
Here are a few difficult facts about education in college classrooms:
1. Lectures don’t work well. People just don’
Academic self care
The semester has begun and everyone is returning back to campus. It means my commuter bus is full and I
Recommended reads #34
image by Tom Murphy VII
* Here is an especially gorgeous and fascination-inducing natural history site called Corner of the Cabinet.
It’s nice to have administrators you can trust
Last week, our campus had its back-to-school events. Our administrators talked about their big plans.
There was one Thing that
History will not repeat itself (i.e. lessons learned as a first-year faculty member)
By Sarah Bisbing
I survived my first year as a faculty member. In fact, I think I even did pretty
Scientific conferences, the too-slow movement of ideas, and giving an engaging talk
I went to a bunch of scientific conferences this summer. Four of ’em. I have a smorgasbord of reflections on