Category: research miscellanea
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If scientists were tabloid fodder
And now for something completely different. Do you know 14? 14 is an artist who satirizes celebrity culture on her blog Gallery of the Absurd. Here’s my favourite of her paintings: For months the world has been anticipating the arrival of the Brangelina baby. Tabloids and bloggers have been speculating that this baby is destined…
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Announcing the Journal of Failed Studies… coming sometime
Dr. Felix Eggers‘ comment on my last post did remind me of something! In August 2006, Felix, Michael Paul and I were attending the AMA Summer Marketing Educators’ Conference in Chicago. All of us where in the middle of our Ph.D. theses back then, with Magdas, Shirleys and Bernies popping up left and right. Sitting…
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Worst. Result. Ever. Brilliant!
By chance, I stumbled across One Big Lab yesterday, a very interesting blog on Open Science maintained by (as far as I can tell) four Stanford bioinformatics Ph.D. students. One of the many gems to be discovered there is a series of t-shirt designs called “Worst. Result. Ever.”: You’ve been there, done that. Spent hours,…
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Things that gave me pause this week II
With a lot less words than the other thing that gave me pause this week. Via Smashing Magazine via FFFfound. Update: Since I’ve been asked, I do occasionally buy perfume and I like ice cream. And I probably wouldn’t turn down an ocean cruise.
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This one is for you nerds
This morning in perpetually sunny London, as I walked from my flat to the Warwick Avenue tube station, I noticed something that almost made me tremble in awe and excitement. I could barely hold my iPhone still to take a picture. I’m living around the corner from the house where Alan Turing was born! ALAN…
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