Impostor Syndrome sighting (1)
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The most popular posts on this blog have been the ones I did on impostor syndrome. When I wrote them, I never thought they would be so popular, would be linked to by so many different sources or that they would lead to an interview. I wrote them because impostor syndrome was something that I was dealing with at that time and I thought I might not be alone in that. Impostor syndrome, for those ...
VADLO - Google for Scientists? (2)
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Yet another online site for scientific networking (1)
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I've sign into yet another sciency LinkedIn type site. This time it's Epernicus. I've had a good look at the site, it's about on par with SciLink with some exceptions. 1) The scientific genealogy application on SciLink is much better then that on the Epernicus site. Why? You can extensively modify the tree beyond your own personal connections. Bigger trees are better (more info). 2) The profile page of Epernicus lists all your publications in ...
Is the Internet Bad for Science? (12)
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A sociologist who studied the citation patterns of 34 million journal articles that went online between 1998 and 2005 claims that using the Internet for research is leading to less-thorough scholarship.
Texans Build World's Most Powerful Laser (2)
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Scientists have switched on the world's most powerful laser, which for one-trillionth of a second is 2,000 times more powerful than all the power plants in the United States. The laser's output tops a petawatt, which is a quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) watts of power. In the basement of the physics building at the University of Texas at Austin, the school's High Intensity Laser Science Group built a petawatt laser in hopes of recreating astronomical phenomena like ...
