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Wilde Life Love Not Found Menage a 3 (and all other PixieTrix Comics; mildly NSFW) Oglaf (NSFW) Go Get a Roomie (NSFW) Headless Bliss Zombie Roomie Far to the North The Meek Maximumble SMBC Cyanide and Happiness Least I Could Do Feel free to drop a link to your favorite comic in the comments! I’m
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Reader MC3 (I hope it stands for mass times speed of light cubed?) had a question: … as an academic, did you purposely have your kids very spaced out age-wise? In your experience, what do you think are the benefits/costs of doing so, vs. having 3 kids very close in age to one another? (This
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Things that might cheer up a grumpy academic: Taking a road trip with 2/3 of the brood. There is nothing quite like driving on the freeways of the vast land that is the US. Maybe I need to moonlight as a trucker. Seriously, if I didn’t worry about blood clots in legs, I would drive cross-country all
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I heard this song today in kickboxing class, after a long while…And I realized that’s exactly what everyone needed this Friday:
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I have often written about my hatred of meetings. I believe what really bugs me is that most meetings in academia don’t actually accomplish anything concrete, let alone all that they supposedly set out to accomplish. This is a common problem with faculty meetings, but it seems broader, and is probably ubiquitous wherever there aren’t
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2014 was my first year on WordPress. Based on their stats, these were people’s favorite posts: Blogroll Xykademiqz Attempts to Socialize Question from Reader: Dishonesty in Fellowship Application About Tenure Track, Illustrated Writing Papers with Graduate Students Who Don’t Want to Write Papers, Take Seven Gajillion The Life and Times of TT Academics: A Stream-of-Consciousness Post Navel Gazing:
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This is one of the key questions in the career of a professional scientist. How do you come up with ideas? How do you choose which ones to pursue? A few people have impeccable taste for new projects and open up completely new research vistas more than once in their career: Andre Geim of graphene
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