low-throughput

some random thoughts and quotes about organised (and disorganised) science

Friday, 29 March 2013

both and neither academic or artistic

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I wish somebody offered me a job just like that, after a short email exchange. I wish to offer you a job . It is a peculiar response t...
Wednesday, 27 February 2013

jealousies and rivalries

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From Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith : Isabel did not like her desk to get too cluttered, but that did not mean that...
Thursday, 31 January 2013

so long, 3.091x

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Hooray, I just downloaded a pdf file certifying that I “ successfully completed 3.091x: Introduction to Solid State Chemistry, a course o...
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Friday, 4 January 2013

forever foreign

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In the preface to his novel NO , Carl Djerassi wrote: A striking phenomenon of the contemporary science scene is the remarkable Asianiz...
Tuesday, 18 December 2012

season greetings to excellent people

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This is the time of year — again! — when they start cleaning their desks and send holiday greetings to unsuccessful applicants. I don’t eve...
Sunday, 9 December 2012

Sir Patrick Moore (1923—2012)

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Moore was perhaps the last in the great British tradition of significant contributions to science by distinguished amateurs, and was fierce...
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...
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