Differences in Discussions
‘It’s very good,’ said Vimes, ignoring this. ‘But I need to know more. I need to know the names. I think you know the names. Where did they meet? Things like that. I need to know them,’ ‘Some things...
View ArticleSupporting Academic Writing at Universities
Many things went on at Unseen University and, regrettably, teaching had to be one of them. The faculty had long ago confronted this fact and had perfected various devices for avoiding it. But this was...
View ArticleSome DEVONthink Considerations and Issues
“A man of your intellect not being good with names and numbers. Especially an economist of your stature.” “It’s not intellect, it’s memory. It’s a different gift. A wonderful one. I’ve never had it.”...
View ArticleTips for Doing Presentations with Apple’s Keynote: General Issues
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. Michael Faraday I’ve agreed to do a presentation on “Organizing...
View ArticleTips for Doing Presentations with Apple’s Keynote: Templates
My father gave me these hints on speech-making: “Be sincere … be brief … be seated.” James Roosevelt Using Official Templates In many professional settings, you will have to use the official template...
View ArticleTips for Doing Presentations with Apple’s Keynote: Using only an iOS device
“And then I’ll be staying on a tiny island and I don’t know if I’ll be living in a hut, or what.” “Very exciting … as a luggage problem!” Joe Banks and the Luggage Salesman in “Joe Versus the Volcano”...
View ArticleTips for Doing Presentations with Apple’s Keynote: Hello Transparency!
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. Galileo Galilei One of the basics when it comes to...
View ArticleHow about a Geeks’ Day?
“It’s just, in high school, knowledge was pretty much frowned upon. You really had to work to learn anything. But here, the energy, the collective intelligence … It’s like this force, this penetrating...
View ArticleReading books and fall asleep
But she decided that she might as well go to bed no matter what time it was. One whole wall was filled with books, both shelves and spindle racks. She found a spool of Kipling’s Just So Stories and...
View ArticleA Critical Look at Scientific Writing Courses
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. Calvin, to Hobbes, in “Calvin and Hobbes” Scientific writing — and the work before you start to write — is...
View ArticleBeware of a (wo)man of one book
“Beware of a man of one book.” English Proverb Pat Thomson has an interesting post on her website talking about the dangers of uncritically offering and accepting advice when it comes to academic work....
View ArticleYouTube RSS Feeds
Pessimist: “It can’t get any worse!” Optimist: “Oh yes it can!” Unknown I use DEVONthink a lot to stay up-to-date on Journal articles and other, more entertaining sources of information (see Digital...
View ArticleDigital Scanner Pens
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Edmund Burke A reader recommended using a scanner pen to digitize passages from books (thank you Amy :-)). Personally, I haven’t tried it,...
View ArticleInteresting talk by Jonathan Haidt and YourMorals.org
“Social Justice, as I see it practiced, […] at least in academic circles, is […] an effort to basically circle around specific identified victim groups, fight for justice for them, demonize the...
View ArticleCaring to much — A few thoughts on Haidt’s moral foundations framework
I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can’t be any worse. Mark Twain I found Haidt’s...
View ArticleInteresting presentation: “How to Win a Nobel Prize” by Sir Tim Hunt
“tremendous fun figuring all this stuff out — sometimes it’s logical, sometimes it’s luck, and of course you have to follow your luck, and who you’re working with to my mind is almost the most...
View ArticleThere’s something to be said for good Fountain Pens
To hold a pen is to be at war. Voltaire (1694-1778) Let me first stress that I love working digitally. I think, and my hands write. Not as fast as I think, but faster than I could ever hope to write...
View ArticleSome comments on the tension between creativity and commerce
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much...
View ArticleEssay Recommendation: “The Coddling of the American Mind” by Greg Lukianoff...
“The presumption that students need to be protected rather than challenged in a classroom is at once infantilizing and anti-intellectual.” American Association of University Professors One topic I’m...
View ArticleApple iOS Keynote Presentation Freezes
As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing. Unknown During a keynote presentation with my iPhone, the presentation froze a couple of times. Not sure why. It worked without a hitch when I...
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