Die Zukunft deiner Forschung — Wie organisiert man eine wissenschaftliche...
That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. [...]
View ArticleKreativität braucht Struktur — Wie lässt sich Kreativität organisieren?
If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem wonderful at all. Michelangelo A chapter I once wrote [...]
View ArticleMaking managing different student projects less sucky (esp. sending mails)
‘Students?’ barked the Archchancellor. ‘Yes, Master. You know? They’re the thinner ones with the pale faces? Because we’re a university? They come with the whole [...]
View ArticleRecommendations: sketchplanations
“No, I can’t dumb it down any further.” God to Moses, when handing out the tablets with the 10 commandments, via non-sequitur I had a [...]
View ArticleQuickly Renaming Variables in R
Real programmers don’t comment their code. It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. Unknown One of the nice things in R [...]
View ArticleRecommendation: Marty Lobdell – Study Less Study Smart
Willow: «I don’t know. You’ve been studying … really a lot.» Buffy: «I’m trying. But they’re really piling on the reading, and Giles fills any [...]
View ArticleStrategic Dissertation Time
I had a look at the Coursera-Course “Work Smarter, Not Harder: Time Management for Personal & Professional Productivity“. It was mostly okay’ish. But there was [...]
View ArticleGetting Exported Annotations (Highlights, Underlines, Notes, etc) from PDF...
Buddha: Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. Me taking notes: Buddha says make sure you give the [...]
View ArticleMensa (a so-called high IQ society, emotional assessment)
Every community has its downsides. Don’t leave it out of an emotional response. Unknown This is a rather … personal blog posting. In 2007, I [...]
View ArticleMensa (a so-called high IQ society, rational assessment)
A cynic, after all, is a passionate person who does not want to be disappointed again. Zander and Zander After the rather emotional posting about [...]
View ArticleSocial Loafing in Student Project Work and Minimal Group Paradigm
Democracy can’t work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that’s all there is — so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are [...]
View ArticleUniversities under Covid-19 Regulations
«Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn’t have to produce anything. You’ve never been in the private sector. They [...]
View ArticleThe Reality of Sex (in medicine)
«Much of the history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.» [...]
View ArticleA fast-beating heart (dealing with psychophysiological reactions, incl. fear)
You’re a fool, said the internal editor. Some people have tried to kill you. You’re concealing information from the Watch. You’re mixing with strange people. [...]
View ArticleCreative Solutions during Covid Teaching Regulations
«We all did what we had to do. And in those circumstances, we did the best we could.» V for Vendetta Strange how things develop. [...]
View ArticleUpdate to «The atrocities at the height of an evil regime did start small»
If you’ve ever wondered how regular people stood by and watched Germany descend into Naziism, now you know. Unknown It was suggested to me that [...]
View ArticleCreating quick teleprompter slides (mirrored slides or text)
«My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.» Ronald [...]
View ArticleThe soft bigotry of low expectations
soft bigotry of low expectations The practice of expecting less from members of a disadvantaged group and thus implicitly encouraging those people not to reach [...]
View ArticleOnce more with foresight — using a Plague
After an outbreak of Bubonic Plague, the University of Cambridge closed its doors for 2 YEARS. Isaac Newton had completed his degree, but his academic [...]
View ArticleRecommendation: How To Speak by Patrick Winston
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. Michael Faraday The [...]
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