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Why your teaching assistant may seem robotic Words that make people’s skin crawl Why you can’t lose weight on a diet Professor or Hobo? Being an adult Modern Solo adventures Interview with Santa’s raindeer wrangler Criticism and ineffective feedback Deadpool
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An institution has tasks A-Z that need to be done. Tasks Q-Z are very important, but are considerably more laborious than other tasks and also have to be done 2x or 4x more frequently. The task-assignment system has each employee submit a small number of preferred tasks. Usually, an employee will be assigned one or two among their preferred tasks…
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I am not a particularly neat person. I start my semester with a very clean desk, and then just let stuff accumulate. There are piles with HW assignments, scribbles that I made during office hours, random pages from drafts of manuscripts with marked-up edits on them, all interspersed with books that I pulled out to look…
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Okay… I know the following is no one’s first choice for a blog topic, but we gotta do this. It won’t hurt too much, I promise! The tentative release date for “Academaze” is a little over a month away. Melanie has demonstrated superhuman patience in working with me (thanks, Melanie!) and the collection is coming along nicely. This is…
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Happy Star Wars Day! May the Fourth Be With You
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Days like today, when I have both a power lecture and a discussion section, leave me completely drained. Nearly 3 hours of talking and walking and prancing around with markers, writing on the board. I draw and derive everything on the spot, which helps with the pace of my delivery and with students taking notes, but it takes considerable…
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I have always thought of myself as a diehard scientist. Yet, the older I get, the more often I ask, “What’s the point of all this, exactly?” And I find that the only things that quench, temporarily, this existential angst are works of art. Hearing a beautiful piece of music, seeing a really good movie, reading a well-written…
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———————— * This joke is for everyone who’s ever loved (or hated) the quantization of total angular momentum, J. The z-component of total angular momentum is denoted by Jz. For a given j (the quantum number that characterizes the magnitude of total angular momentum as J=ℏ√j(j+1) ), Jz can have 2j+1 different values. * In case you don’t really follow pop-culture, the joke refers…
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You know how November is the month for writing? NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) both happen in November. I blogged daily in November over the past few years, as it’s a great way to purge the metaphorical lactic acid from the “writing muscles” that were straining to make the late…
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Apropos nothing, here are some webcomics I enjoy. These are all humorous, but I am also a sucker for beautiful art, so some of the selection reveals that. (I have also contributed to a couple of Kickstarter campaigns and artists’ Patreons. ) Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal xkcd PhD Comics (obviously) Cyanide and Happiness (not for the…
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