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Eldest got Mortal Kombat X for Christmas… Btw, wombats are real.
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So here I am, watching Dinosaur Train with my 4-year-old. He’s sitting with me, or, more precisely, on as well as around me, in a big armchair. He keeps moving around and poking me with his elbow, as he repositions and props himself up. I learn about new dinosaur species. Scott the Paleontologist — who reminds me…
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I had never read a Stephen King book until I picked up his “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft,” which Eldest had borrowed from a friend and left on the dining room table. I can tell why the man has sold millions of books. “On Writing” is part memoir, part writing advice, and I couldn’t put it…
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(Originally appeared here.) A few weeks ago, with his post “What do theoretical physicsts actually do?”, Thoreau inspired me to write a post about what my work entails. But, theory and computation are certainly not the province of physics, and an idea for this carnival was born. I am very excited to share with you a…
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I am really disillusioned by peer review today. No, it’s not my paper that got rejected. And no, it’s not the first time an incident like this happens. I just got a notice that a paper I had reviewed for Prestigious Society Letters got editorially accepted for publication after 1st revision. I reviewed the original manuscript but never…
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This post, ill-formed when I started writing, has been motivated in part by an email exchange with a former undergraduate researcher of mine, now in grad school at Fancypants Uni, and in part by a recent online interaction with another blogger. I am not even sure how to articulate what it is about, but I guess it has…
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