O Crominho do Técnico

As I write my PhD thesis, it’s always nice to keep in perspective our work: Please see more here.

Hydrocalypse industries (shout out to my lab mates Christina Agapakis and Patrick Boyle!) has done a funny video of Ginko Bioworks, a start-up spearheaded by Tom Knight (MIT). You can read more about it here. Christina’s blog is called Oscillator, hosted at ScienceBlogs .

I don’t believe in the race. While talking about scientific pursuits, vacation and being happy.

The New York Times has an article on Portugal’s use of renewable sources. The most striking thing on the article is the following graph: Besides Iceland, which will show no increase in their renewable energy source share, Portugal is only behind Denmark in Europe. This is great news for Portugal as long as big profitable [...]

I bet you did not expect that :-)

For those of you interested in reading the full version of the article and do not happen to have access here’s the PDF. I will write a bit more about it when I have some time!

Due to my computer abilities I have been appointed the lab’s internal IT manager. It basically entails nothing with the exception of communicating to the real IT people what the lab needs or fixing up some code in our PHP system for ordering and some databases. One of my duties is to administer the mailing [...]

This attitude towards testing plays into everything that – educationally speaking – makes Americans feel embarrassed about themselves. On first hearing Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn, the usual response of a young American is not to swoon, weep or ponder whether beauty is really truth, and truth beauty. It is to ask: “Will that [...]

The American Scholar has an article by William Zinsser’s on how to write English as a second language. You have no idea of how blessed you are if you stumble upon this article early in your writing career. Good luck to you all indeed.