December 2010
7 posts
Career Advice for Undergraduates Considering Law... →
by Nick Smith, UNH Philosophy Professor. Not the only potentially interesting piece on his website.
無門關 →
Shoe Tossing →
A Faustian bargain →
An open letter to George M Philip, President of the State University of New York At Albany by Gregory A Petsko and published in Genome Biology.
What makes this letter so superlative is that it wasn’t written only for its directed audience. I’ve gained a lot from having read Petsko’s opinion. The figure of the research professor in the sciences lends itself to a stereotype of...
Perspectives on time management from a... →
from the Career Advice section of Terry Tao’s blog.
The Inverse Correlation Between Praise ("smart")... →
Going to be thinking about this into the future. Our generation certainly seems to have been a victim of such praise, though maybe I’m saying that largely because I’ve run into problems in my own life related to those described in the article.
I try to keep telling myself that I can do anything I want, provided I really want to, and that, most importantly, I put in the requisite...