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Reader J asks how to ensure good flow in technical writing: I’m going to be a graduate student soon. I follow your blog, especially when you talk about writing, because I’m not good at it. A problem I have had since middle school is that my sentences and paragraphs don’t flow well. My papers are…
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Apparently, a septuagenarian Nobel laureate thinks women are a distraction in the lab and cry a lot; calls for gender-segregated labs. The Internet erupts. Whatever. I am actually relieved every time something like this happens. I am relieved that occasionally someone is actually stupid enough to say out loud what many think and act according to anyway.…
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Cloud, who blogs over as Wandering Scientist, posted a review of Laura Vanderkam’s “I Know How She Does It“. I have not read Vanderkam’s book and I have to say it is unlikely that I will. I occasionally read her blog, I have read a couple of her previous books, and I think I have a pretty good idea…
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*For non-US readers: Curious George is a beloved book and cartoon character.
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This weekend I finally gave myself a permission to not work, as I had worked nearly non-stop through last weekend because of a deadline and ended up quite exhausted. Last weekend, Middle Boy had his best friend over. We love the little boy and his family, and I know the mom pretty well. She is very…
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The Internet has been getting on my nerves lately. There are several blogs that I often read but from which I will have to give a break, perhaps indefinitely. On an intellectual level, kudos to the writers; I wish them well, and I hope for their continued success. Viscerally, I mostly just want to punch them…
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I have issues with some of the advanced teaching strategies as I see them implemented in my department. (Flipped classroom, I am looking at you, and all other eggcellent paradigms.) My main complaint is that the responsibility to sit down and understand the material and work until proficiency is achieved is being taken away from…
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The spring semester is over! After months of heavy teaching and service, with a large helping of grant writing, I am now happily heading into 3.5 months of summer, which means a) frantically writing up and sending off several papers for publication, which had been sitting on my desk for longer than I care to…
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————- [1] The stamp-collecting snub is among Rutherford’s quotes [2] Rutherford really did die of complications after a delayed umbilical hernia surgery.
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