low-throughput

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

Tuesday, 29 October 2013

we fetishize the national boundary

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From the lecture 10 of the MITx course 4.605x , A Global History of Architecture , by Professor Mark Jarzombek ( Fall 2013 ): One thing ...
Friday, 13 September 2013

important scholarly considerations

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From Portuguese Irregular Verbs by Alexander McCall Smith : It was the lowest form of work in the academic hierarchy, made all the more...
Thursday, 29 August 2013

keep doing science in spite of Spain

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From the open letter by astrophysicist Amaya Moro-Martín to the Spanish prime minister, published in El País on 19 August 2013 (the Englis...
Monday, 8 July 2013

how not to ask for financial support

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From Ansel Adams at 100 by John Szarkowski : A small part of Adams ’ correspondence is devoted to trying to persuade his rich friends tha...
Tuesday, 11 June 2013

adios, CopyrightX

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To my great surprise, my review of 3.091x course became the most popular post of all time on this blog. That is to say, more than 365 page...
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Wednesday, 17 April 2013

the book has no future

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In his recent article in Chemistry International [1], Peter Atkins wrote: The book has no future. Most of us who have been brought up ...
Thursday, 4 April 2013

hand wash

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Last night I put this, presumably, hand-wash only jumper into a washing machine. On a hand wash cycle, cold water. The machine stopped in t...
Tuesday, 2 April 2013

it’s nonsense to look for a solution if it already exists

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Мы сидели, подперев головы, и предавались самоуничижению, когда в зал заглянул Федор Симеонович. Насколько я понял, ему не терпелось узнат...
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...
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