Thursday, 29 May 2014

in the field of silent air flows

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Scientific job advertising clearly went downhill since... well, since my last successful application, some time in the last century. In the...
Monday, 21 April 2014

celtado

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I can’t say that I never thought of doing something useful to earn my living. For example, teaching English. It was not until last year tho...
Tuesday, 1 April 2014

at cost of infinite suffering, we study to love whiskey and cigars

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From Novel Notes by Jerome K. Jerome: “Thought existed before the Printing Press; and the men who wrote the best hundred books never re...
Friday, 28 February 2014

aku-aku, what have I done

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From Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond : Education is a process involving two sets of participants who...
Friday, 3 January 2014

applying online

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I guess everybody who started working in science 20—25 years ago would agree that applying for a job now is not what it used to be. No, ...
Thursday, 12 December 2013

hei hei 4.605x

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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. William Faulkner And so, one more edX course is finished: A Global History of Architecture: P...
Monday, 25 November 2013

the importance of knowing the rules

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From The Kalahari Typing School For Men by Alexander McCall Smith : The public office to which she was admitted had that typical look and...
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...