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Bad Proposals Writing Techniques

by Kelle December 14, 2010

How to Fail in Grant Writing | Do Your Job Better—The Chronicle of Higher Ed A list of proven techniques for writing bad proposals. (via Mordecai Mac Low). Some of my favorites: Focus your grant entirely on your own study species and/or area of focus. Knowledge for knowledge’s sake, right? Dealing with problems of general [...]

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Sleep Better by Adjusting Screen Brightness at Night

by Kelle November 19, 2010

F.lux for Mac 5.0 Review | Macworld via Mike Cushing …looking at a computer display late at night—particularly when that display is calibrated to be bright and clear during the daytime—can be both visually irritating and a contributor to sleep problems. Once the sun starts to go down, [F.lux] gradually—over the course of an hour—dims [...]

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Communicate, Cooperate, Collaborate

by Kelle November 11, 2010

Research shows that two people can learn to cooperate intuitively, but larger groups need to communicate | University of Leicester Two people can learn to cooperate with each other intuitively – without communication or any conscious intention to cooperate. But this process breaks down in groups of three or more. In collaborations of three or [...]

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Procrastination

by Kelle November 10, 2010

Procrastination | You Are Not So Smart This article is a bit on the long side, but the bottom line is worth it: Your effort is better spent outsmarting future-you than making empty promises through plugging dates into a calendar. For an even longer, but much better written article, check out the New Yorker review [...]

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Writing Better Recommendation Letters

by Kelle November 9, 2010

Two great links on writing recommendation letters. First, a post with some very general advice. A great place to start if you’re new to writing letters and/or you haven’t seen very many as a committee member: Writing Badass Letters of Recommendation | 3 x 3 in Cullowhee. (via Profahacker.) Second, an article describing the differences [...]

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Java and Mac OS X

by Planck October 25, 2010

Apple Outsider has a good piece on Java on Mac OS X. If you haven’t heard, Apple has announced that the current version of Java has been deprecated. This means that Apple is not going to keep creating their own Java VM for OS X. Apple is relying on Oracle/Sun to make a VM for [...]

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Publish your computer code: it is good enough

by Kelle October 15, 2010

Publish your computer code: it is good enough | Nature NewsCompelling call for cultural change regarding releasing the scripts used to arrive at published results. What would be the best tool for us (astronomers) to use to for a code repository for static code? Ideally, the tool should allow the code to be tagged with [...]

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Keyboard Shortcut for “Save as PDF…”

by Kelle October 15, 2010

Keyboard Shortcut for “Save as PDF…” in OS X | MacSparkyWalk through for setting up pressing cmd-P twice to print to a PDF. (via Michael Cushing.)

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Dropbox Doubles Referral Credit if You’ve Got a .edu Email Address

by Kelle October 10, 2010

Dropbox – Students I just doubled my Dropbox storage by associating a .edu email address with my current account. They are giving retroactive credit for all previous referrals at the new higher rate (500MB/referral instead of 250MB). (via Lifehacker.) In case your not familiar with DropBox, here’s a post from the archive: Use DropBox to [...]

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LaTeX and iWork on Mac OS X

by Kelle October 9, 2010

Keynote and LaTeX on Mac OS X Great tips on getting LaTeX equations into Keynote presentations and Pages documents. I’m impressed with the simplicity of both the Grapher and LaTeXIt Service solutions.

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