personal and professional notes from a chemistry graduate student
Aug 26th 2005nerd alert
Nice example of the way “politics and personalities” impact the review process:
Office of the Special Counsel’s response to Sternberg’s complaints about his treatment after publishing the Meyer paper.
(Thanks to MikeGene @ Telic Thoughts)
Actually *from* the west side to downtown. Which sort of brings me back to the starting point, after living on the north side, then the east side, then the west side. (Never on the south side, ’cause that’s dull.)
Starting to sell off furniture and stuff too, to avoid having to move it down [...]
Aug 11th 2005General & nerd alert & site news
My advisor suggested September 19th or 23rd for a data meeting. A month and a bit to finish some experiments, write a paper or two, and wrassle my committee into holding still long enough for me to go through it all.
Fewer updates to follow…
Aug 4th 2005General
Are [Intelligent Design advocates] wrong about that? Probably. But to treat them like pariahs for wanting to examine the question? This is hardly rational.
On my home PC, 24 hours a day, I run Berkeley’s SETI@HOME, a distributed processing system that scans the skies looking through the random cosmological noise for anything that shows signs of [...]