Ending the Roommate Wars
Jul 20th 2007General
If I still had a roommate… I’d be pushing him to sign up for
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Oddest Recruitment Bonus Ever
Jul 18th 2007General
I was looking around for jobs as I was preparing to graduate, applied to GSK (GlaxoSmithKline). Never heard back from
“On the side of science”?
Jul 11th 2007General
Although the authors are both on the side of science, they have not always agreed about the best ways to oppose religiously motivated threats to scientific practice or instruction…. In a dialogue they re-create here, the authors explained their respective tactics for engaging the enemy Scientific American, June 19 2007 “The authors” are Richard Dawkins [...]
Opportunity
Jul 9th 2007General & nerd alert
We’ve got some high school students working in the lab with us for the summer. Sounds like fun, right? Great opportunity for experience that’ll jump start their interest in science – and their careers. Well, maybe I should say “working”…
Kodak’s sensitive sensors
Jun 14th 2007eyes & General & nerd alert
One trouble with the Nikon CoolPix L12 that my sister got initially (see the last post) was that it was a little too quick to boost the CCD sensitivity to compensate for very low light. It only got into that mess because the lens is so small – I know, I know, you can’t put [...]
Photo Joy and Woe
My faithful companion has died. My Powershot A85 is no more. Actually, it’s just fallen once too many times, and now it can’t adjust the zoom. It *is* stuck on the wide end rather than the tele end, at least, so it’s not totally hopeless. And in particular it makes me far more open to [...]