This is a lecture given by Patrick Winston of MIT. It’s a bit dated, but I think he makes some good basic points about teaching. Enjoy. Introduction (2:45, 6.5 MB) How to Start (2:15, 5.8 MB) The Big Four (6:30, 17.1 MB) Time & Place (3:01, 8.7 MB) The Blackboard (3:19, 9.8 MB) Overheads (4:03, [...]
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I did! I LOVE this video…especially since my nephew is a particle physicist at Harvard! If you are a fellow geek you’ve got to view this video that explains particle physics and the new accelerator using rap music…Here’s the video. Oh, and in case you are wondering what jiggy means….you can learn more here. Let [...]
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Turns out Charles Darwin took this question very seriously! Who knew? He was interested in understanding if hair color had effects on mate selection. Here’s an article from UK’s Telegraph describing what was uncovered as a result of the Darwin Correspondence Project which is attempting to compile 15,000 of the letters that Darwin wrote and [...]
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Today is a MOMENTOUS day in science. I am thrilled because I FINALLY have the answer! Let me back track a bit, before I tell you the “big news”. You see, about a year or so ago, I started telling my then 3 year old identical twin daughters, “I loved you from here to Pluto [...]
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Recently I delivered a seminar on Scientific Poster Presentation. I made a handout to provide details on what you should include (and exclude) for each section of the poster. I thought you might find this useful so I decided to post. If you disagree or have something to add or modify it would be great [...]
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This past Thursday the Chronicle of Higher Education reported “Journals Find Fakery in Many Images Submitted to Support Research“. I was astounded. How could this happen? In two weeks I’ll be at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center delivering a talk to “young scientists” and I am now wondering if I should add a piece in that [...]
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I was preparing for a networking seminar, so I decided to use my own professional network to prepare for the seminar (tricky, huh?). Anyway, while speaking with Julian Lum, Ph.D. he mentioned two great resources aimed at post-docs and early career scientists. These two books can be downloaded for free (for non-commercial use) from the [...]
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“Enthusiasm finds the opportunities, and energy makes the most of them.” — Henry Hoskins For those that have seen me in person you know that I am BIG on PASSION!! Tonight I was watching NOVA and they had a program on the history of the first flowering plant. There was a scene where the scientists [...]
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(Note: I originally wrote this article in September 2006. For this post, I made a few minor very minor updates. I think since this writing, some conferences are moving in this direction. Comment below about your experiences and thoughts on this.) One person recently commented to me, “Often times, I look at a poster for [...]
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I want to encourage you to be not only on the leading edge with your science, but also be leading edge with your communication. How can you do that? By allowing the form to follow function. What do I mean? Read on! The basic rule for any design is “form follows function.” If an object [...]
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