by Jane Rigby
April 12, 2010
When a speaker switches to a new, wordy slide, what happens? The audience reads the words. They can’t help it. This is what my wife calls the “Cereal Box effect”: if a cereal box is on the kitchen table, you’ll read the words printed on it. In all of human history, nothing interesting has ever been printed on a [...]
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by Guest
February 17, 2010
Here’s another guest post! This one is contributed by Mark Marley, a scientist at NASA Ames Research Center working on modeling the atmospheres of planets and brown dwarfs. You’ve been invited to give a talk at a workshop that will lead to a new spacecraft instrument proposal in Europe, but your spouse is leaving town [...]
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