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Make sure you watch with the sound on. The noises are adorable! The Klein bottle is my favorite manifold. (Everyone should have a favorite manifold; if in doubt, go with a torus — many delicious edible varieties.) Things That Delight Me: Klein Bottles You can buy glass Klein bottles here. Also plastic ones.
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Smurf’s adorable pronunciation inspired this comic
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My anger has temporarily abated. Also, I haven’t been able to do much work over the past couple of days, and that has to stop. I am not inspired to write, as I am all written out, having commented elsewhere and I feel generally empty. Hence, food. Specifically, pics of two random meals I cooked earlier…
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Not sure what else there is to say. Michael Moore called it in July. I am not sad, just low-grade angry and mostly numb. We are in for a lot of $hit. But I am not entirely surprised. I have been telling myself that people couldn’t be so hateful to elect Trump, that reason would prevail and…
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Many academics have a primary affiliation (“tenure home”) and courtesy (“zero time”) appointments in other departments or interdisciplinary centers. For instance, I have a primary and two courtesy appointments. There are also academics with split appointments, where two or more departments pay parts of the salary and require teaching and service from the faculty member. If you…
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I bought “Tenure Hacks: The 12 Secrets to Making Tenure” by Russell James a few months ago. Amazon kept listing it as one the books that people view or buy together with mine, and it looked interesting. (“A brutally Machiavellian guidebook for the current or aspiring assistant professor,” says the subtitle.) The book was published through…
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Professors in the sciences have research groups. The groups range from small (the professor and just one or two additional people), to sizable operations (a dozen or two) and sometimes mega groups (even I have heard of Langer’s mega group at MIT, even though I have nothing to do with that field). Today someone said…
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