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 lists [...]
Part of my life is pretty much exposed to everyone. I’m registered and active in social networks sites and I have a couple of websites. One of them is this personal blog and the other is a very public blog aggregator for science blogs written in Portuguese called Divulgarciencia, http://divulgarciencia.com.
Being exposed, public and fairly vocal about [...]
When you’ve played and watched soccer for well over two decades it’s hard to get impressed. This past weekend Real Madrid player Cristiano Ronaldo scored an amazing free kick. It is amazing because it is beautiful to watch but also because we can witness how soccer can still be re-invented. This player has re-invented how [...]
NYT wants to put blogs behind their new upcoming paywall. It seems that not even they know what is going to be happening with it and the rules. Interestingly, they may exempt famous blogs like Freakonomics and Paul Krugman’s (recent Nobel prize winner) from being behind the paywall.
Let me get this straight, they will put [...]
In Portugal, the opposing parties prefer to let the current government die slowly and painfully (in portuguese) than try to dissolve it and put a new and (hopefully) better one in place. This decision represents the current politics in Portugal: It’s a country where politicians care more about themselves instead of their country.
It’s a sad [...]
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.
has started in full swing (gizmodo)!
And yes, some of these things are true. Also true is that we don’t have to buy it. Developers can make apps for other systems, that are more open (Believe me, it’s all going to be about what apps will make it a must have). That is all great if [...]
Qingqing Wang’s Seven taboos when socializing with graduate students:
Don’t ask a grad student how his research goes. This is rude and feeling-hurting.
Don’t ask a grad student when he will graduate. This is rude and feeling-hurting
Don’t ask a grad student whether he is dating someone, when he will get married. This is rude and feeling-hurting
Don’t ask [...]