Thinking about what we can do about sexual assault and harassment in the sciences
If you haven’t seen it yet, go over and read this courageous, important and stunningly written Op-Ed piece by
The two-body problem isn’t temporary
Wouldn’t it be amazing if both you and your partner landed great jobs in the same city or even
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* 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
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* 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
