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Friday, February 29th, 2008
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I noticed this little editorial seemed to be getting a lot of bookmarks at connotea, Ten Simple Rules for Graduate Students. It has some apt advice. Although most senior grad students would of learned those lessons the hard way, I would still recommend reading it. It also has links to ...
Posted in Nature, chem 2.0 | 1 Comment »
Monday, February 18th, 2008
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As most readers know, I have more than a passing interest in social bookmarking. There are popular social bookmarking websites like Digg and Reddit. But, there are also science social bookmarking websites like Nature's Connotea. Connotea has many advantages over other sites, such as being able to export the papers ...
Posted in Nature, chem 2.0 | 5 Comments »
Friday, February 15th, 2008
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Sad news coming out of Warsaw today. A 27-year old graduate student at Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna (Military University of Technology) suffered severe injuries while performing experiments towards his thesis. He lost both hands and received severe burns on his face. The explosion did not cause a fire. Apparently, his research ...
Posted in science news | 4 Comments »
Monday, February 4th, 2008
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I've unfortunately been suckered into representing my boss (Heino Nitsche) for the prospective visits this spring. My boss is unavailable due to teaching, and I will be doing the typical office meet-and-greet for him. So, if anyone wants to chill in his office with the best cheap wine I can ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
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Although most undergraduates are fretting over acceptance letters1, there has been recent interest in personal statements2,3,4. Below is an outline of what I would consider a typical chemical personal statement should consist of, and with slight modifications, it can be used as a generalized outline for all bright-eyed science undergraduates.
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
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As most readers have noticed we’ve done a massive revamping of the website since Jan 1st 2008. Site upgrade posts are the most boring, so I’ll do everyone a favor and write it in outline format.
An unfortunate circumstance of the upgrades have been the inability to migrate all comments made ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
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... The Mercedes symbol looks like an eclipsed conformation.
... The first thing you reach for in the morning are your prescription goggles
... All your shirts have holes.
... All your scars are not from bar fights but from chemical burns.
... Someone offers you acid, but its not what you expected.
... Describing ...
Posted in Uncategorized | 9 Comments »
Friday, January 18th, 2008
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It's that time again to start planning for Spring ACS. I will be attending and looking forward to meeting whoever else would like to do the usual "meet-up". The meet-ups are generally very successful and always entertaining.
I will be presenting on Monday in the chemical education section in the oral ...
Posted in ACS, chem 2.0 | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
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The discovery of a new isotope of Bohrium, by Nelson et al. (I'm a coauthor as well), was published yesterday in PRL. In total, 8 events of 260Bh were reported. Unfortunately, the new isotope is not long-lived enough to be of practical chemical interest. A summary of the decay properties ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
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I received the following by email, and was granted permission to share it. Identifying information has been removed.
Mitch,
I'm in a difficult situation and not quite sure how to handle it. Several months ago, I approached a friend of mine from graduate school to work on a collaboration together. I ...
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10 Things Young Graduate Students Need to Know
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