With his daughter still in the embryonic stage, our columnist wonders if it’s too early to steer her toward a career in science.
[Linked on Slashdot, 6/1/11]
[Linked on DaddyTypes, 6/2/11]
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[Linked on Mental Floss, 6/3/11]
Scientific hoaxes — the harmless kind — can be fun, and they can show us how easy it is to stop thinking like a scientist.
How can we ensure that future students will read our names when, many years from now, they open their science textbooks on their iPad 15s?
No talented child ever says, “I want to pipette repetitively when I grow up.”
[Commented on in Harvard Undergraduate Research Journal, 3/5/11]
For all the naive and gullible graduate students out there, here’s a handy guide to what those speakers are really saying.
National Public Radio
A few weeks ago, my sister asked a simple yes-no question on her Facebook page: She wrote, “should I get the flu shot?” She might as well have posted, “should I fillet this kitten?”
Over tea, our columnist considers what the congressional elections might mean for the prospects of science and scientists.
Our Experimental Error columnist asks,“Who are the people in your fume hood?”
National Public Radio
Graduate students need higher stipends, fewer questions from prying relatives about when they’ll graduate, and more department events with unguarded pastries. You might think the last things grad students need are more books.
Why are we most fascinated by the irrelevant aspects of science?
Shouldn’t scientists blow more things up? Introducing the first humor column about being, and becoming, a scientist.
31-page excerpt of the full book, available on Scribd. But you should totally buy the book.
Princeton Alumni Weekly
I’m married. I have no kids. I live in an apartment near the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., and work at a biotech company in Rockville, Md. And later this month, for some reason, I will find it very important to share this information with people I have not seen since last May.
Knowing we would attend a wedding in St. Louis, Missouri, one weekend and a bridal shower in Chicago, Illinois, the next, the two of us decided to turn the events into an excuse for a summer road trip through Illinois and parts of neighboring states from June 28 to July 4. [Coauthored with Marina Koestler Ruben.]
Includes my one-act plays “Out of Character” and “Shot At.”