By Barbara Fister. At Macleans, Luc Rinaldi recently covered a lot of ground in “Does Peer Review Do More Harm Than Good?”, pointing out several issues arising from the way we publish today. Read more...
25 mai 2015
25 mai 2015
Will Periscope, a Mobile App, Open Up Academic Conferences?
By Kris Olds. Nearly 9,000 people, myself included, attended the annual conference of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in late April 2015. The size of the conference has been growing over the last several decades and it has become a de facto international gathering despite the 'American' moniker; a trading space of sorts to present papers, share ideas, formulate collaborative research proposals, source prospective faculty, share gossip, have good times, etc. Read more...25 mai 2015
Bringing the Wrong Mac Projector Adapter to a Talk
By Joshua Kim. I just got back from giving a talk off campus. I brought the wrong Mac adapter.
What I meant to grab was the standard Mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter. This is the dongle that I always bring. It plugs into the project VGA cable. Read more...
25 mai 2015
Canceling My Netflix DVD Plan & The Last New Lecture Hall
By Joshua Kim. This week I (finally) cancelled my Netflix DVD monthly plan. The reason: HBO Now and Netflix original programming. 2015 is the first year that I can get enough high quality video entertainment without relying on physical DVDs to come in the mail. (And without paying a monthly cable or satellite subscription). Read more...
25 mai 2015
Amazon’s Whispersync Failure
By Joshua Kim. Why is Amazon failing so badly at releasing Whispersync-enabled Kindle books? Anyone who has ever tried Whispersync knows how compelling the syncing of e-book and audiobook can be. Switching back and forth between your eyes and your ears brings momentum to your reading. Read more...
25 mai 2015
My “Seveneves" Book Review Conundrum
By Joshua Kim. What do you do when a new book that you have been eagerly awaiting receives a lukewarm review from a reviewer that you respect?
This is the dilemma that I find myself in as I await the release (5/19) of Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves: A Novel. Read more...
25 mai 2015
Preparing an Award-Winning NSF GRFP Application
By Alex T. Williams. The NSF GRFP provides students an annual stipend of $32,000 for three years and is one of the most prestigious fellowships in graduate school. It also has a surprising statistic—about 1 out of 7 applicants receive the award. The good news is this means that you have a realistic chance of winning. Read more...25 mai 2015
Trying Team-Based Inquiry to Teach Research Skills in the Humanities
By Travis Grandy. Teaching research as a team-based activity is probably old hat to those of you in STEM, but in the humanities, many of us still cling to the solitary research process of toiling away in some dark library corner. I, for one, was feeling fed-up—I often saw students become overwhelmed and disengaged by a complex research process, and I would have to answer the same questions about doing research to each individual student. Read more...25 mai 2015
Best of Both Worlds: Windows on a Mac in Five Variations
By Michelle Lavery. Walk into the coffee shop on any university campus and what do you see? Crowded tables covered in journal articles, textbooks, and that quintessential collegiate accessory—the MacBook. Given that over the past 10 years, Apple’s gross profit has increased by 17.5 times, one could extrapolate that more grad students are probably purchasing and using their products. Read more...25 mai 2015
A Relationship
By Tracy Mitrano. I fell in love when I was 15 with a classmate in my all girls’ Catholic high school. Our college-bound track divided between two math classes. In the room across the hall, our friends had the mad math teacher who pioneered individualized learning. Valerie and I had four successive teachers, elderly nuns who either died or were too senile to monitor anything much less algebra in the course of that year. Read more...
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