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Nutrient inputs to a rooftop bryophyte community
Plus Minus – On screwing up a presentation
I gave a presentation at a small conference this weekend on an idea I have for trying to solve a really cool problem. The presentation went really well and conversations with other people at the conference helped me refine the idea and make me more confident about pursuing it. So the informal questions and discussion […]
Fixing grayed out ‘Search by title’ in Mendeley
If Mendeley Desktop starts without an active internet connection, it doesn’t check again to see if you’ve finally connected to the flaky coffee shop wireless. So if Mendeley thinks you’re offline when you’re actually online, just close and reopen it.
Mathematicians’ glasses
Many of the papers I’m reading leap between equations with phrases like “The equation may readily be solved to give [next equation which looks totally unlike previous equation],” “The reader may easily supply the details [of the derivation I read this paper to learn],” and “[the next step I really need to make my model […]
Occupy Wall Street Confessions
As much as I support the Occupy Wall Street movement, I find the actual interviews and videos of the protesters really, really irritating.
Escaping poverty
I drove through an Indian Reserve on a class trip this weekend. Homes were rundown and ramshackle, with junk piled helter-skelter. I was deeply uncomfortable without knowing exactly why. Then one of my classmates ‘explained’ that the houses looked so bad because the First Nations people of the area owned the houses communally, with no […]
ESA Interviews: Jeremy Fox
I interviewed awesome ecologists at the 2011 Ecological Society of America meeting in exchange for reader donations, which paid for my conference attendance. This is one in a series of posts about those interviews. After a lazy Sunday morning spent reading Middle World over buckwheat pancakes and strawberries, I poured myself another cup of coffee, […]