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PhD gear

July 17th, 2008 · No Comments

PhD (Piled Higher & Deeper - a frighteningly accurate web comic depicting “Life (or the lack thereof) in Academia”) has new stuff for purchase at their online store. We’ve given PhD gear as gifts numerous times and I may need to make a purchase for myself:

PROCLAIM YOUR TRUE LOVE…

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I love pipetting—how about you? (well, well, well…)

July 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Take a look at the promo website for Eppendorf’s new automated pipetting system, epMotion. The site hosts links for lyrics, “making the video”, downloadable ringtones, the boy band-like video, and weirdly enough, product documentation. I’ve already posted it to Facebook so that my science buddies from my past-life in the lab can watch [...]

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Bumper stickers reveal link to road rage

June 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Take a look at this article published by Nature news last week that discusses the work of researchers in Colorado who believe that
People who customize their cars with stickers and other adornments are more prone to road rage than other people…
Interesting! The original research can be found here:
Szlemko W., et al. J. Appl. Soc. [...]

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PhD Tales from the Road…at WashU!

June 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Piled Higher and Deeper: Don’t Lick the Spoon

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XKCD in the NYT!

May 26th, 2008 · No Comments

XKCD.com is a fantastic “webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language”. You can imagine my delight when I happened upon an article highlighting XKCD in the New York Times. The title of the NYT article is “This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix”, but I think that this web-toon offers something cerebral [...]

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The Vicious Cycle

May 13th, 2008 · No Comments

How true this is:

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Can Scientists Dance?

April 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Take a look at this article from Science when you have a few minutes…

2009 Dance Your PhD contest: Want to dance your own thesis? Stay tuned to www.johnbohannon.org/dance.html where a CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS will be announced soon. Rather than a localized contest, the next round will be global. Scientists will video their own dances [...]

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Something to brighten your day…

January 20th, 2008 · No Comments

National Science Foundation: Science Hard

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