low-throughput
some random thoughts and quotes about organised (and disorganised) science
Sunday, 4 November 2012
find your passion and pursue it
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From the introductory lecture to the MIT course 3.091, Introduction to Solid State Chemistry by Professor Donald Sadoway (Fall 2010): ...
Friday, 19 October 2012
checking the winning formula
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The day when the first of 2012 Nobel Prizes was announced, a short article containing the recipe for winning one of those appeared on the ...
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
professor awakens, you fail
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Transitions may be the only type of human-like words and phrases that could make mathematical texts accessible for — and, hopefully, even ...
Thursday, 27 September 2012
the end of the world as we know it?
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I don’t think so. Not this year anyway. Instead, we have the next best worst £!@#$%* thing. Today, the Spanish government announced it...
Saturday, 21 July 2012
editing the uneditable
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My classes were not going that well . And so, some time last month, in a moment of weakness (which lasted couple of days actually), I sent ...
Saturday, 9 June 2012
Einstein was right, so what?
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I don’t know about you, but I am really disappointed with the “news” that neutrino , after all, does not exceed the speed of light. Accordi...
Saturday, 26 May 2012
putting the spheres back into tetrahedra
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This post has its roots in a discussion during the coffee-time, inspired by an almost empty jar of condensed milk. It seemed obvious that s...
Thursday, 17 May 2012
dead don't read emails
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Over the last twenty or so years, I have changed several email addresses. Not too many — less than my postal addresses, in fact. It’s not a...
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
Hottabych principle
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Two Young Pioneers , Volka and Zhenya, take the old genie Hassan Abdul-rahman ibn Khattab, aka “ Hottabych ”, to the football match. As the...
Friday, 9 March 2012
against intellectual property
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From Against Intellectual Property by Brian Martin: Few scientists complain that they do not own the knowledge they produce. Indeed, th...
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