Tips for Doing Presentations with Apple’s Keynote: General Issues
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. Michael Faraday I’ve agreed to do a presentation on “Organizing...
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My father gave me these hints on speech-making: “Be sincere … be brief … be seated.” James Roosevelt Using Official Templates In many professional settings, you will have to use the official template...
View ArticleTips for Doing Presentations with Apple’s Keynote: Using only an iOS device
“And then I’ll be staying on a tiny island and I don’t know if I’ll be living in a hut, or what.” “Very exciting … as a luggage problem!” Joe Banks and the Luggage Salesman in “Joe Versus the Volcano”...
View ArticleTips for Doing Presentations with Apple’s Keynote: Hello Transparency!
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. Galileo Galilei One of the basics when it comes to...
View ArticlePost-It Graffiti
“If I had thought about it, I wouldn’t have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can’t do this.” Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M...
View ArticleHow about a Geeks’ Day?
“It’s just, in high school, knowledge was pretty much frowned upon. You really had to work to learn anything. But here, the energy, the collective intelligence … It’s like this force, this penetrating...
View ArticleA Critical Look at Scientific Writing Courses
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. Calvin, to Hobbes, in “Calvin and Hobbes” Scientific writing — and the work before you start to write — is...
View ArticleSafe Spaces at Universities
Go without a coat when it’s cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it’s all about. The only time you define your...
View ArticleBeware of a (wo)man of one book
“Beware of a man of one book.” English Proverb Pat Thomson has an interesting post on her website talking about the dangers of uncritically offering and accepting advice when it comes to academic work....
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Pessimist: “It can’t get any worse!” Optimist: “Oh yes it can!” Unknown I use DEVONthink a lot to stay up-to-date on Journal articles and other, more entertaining sources of information (see Digital...
View ArticleGet a Drawing of Yourself
Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved...
View ArticleCaring to much — A few thoughts on Haidt’s moral foundations framework
I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can’t be any worse. Mark Twain I found Haidt’s...
View ArticleInteresting presentation: “How to Win a Nobel Prize” by Sir Tim Hunt
“tremendous fun figuring all this stuff out — sometimes it’s logical, sometimes it’s luck, and of course you have to follow your luck, and who you’re working with to my mind is almost the most...
View ArticleEssay Recommendation: “The Coddling of the American Mind” by Greg Lukianoff...
“The presumption that students need to be protected rather than challenged in a classroom is at once infantilizing and anti-intellectual.” American Association of University Professors One topic I’m...
View ArticleApple iOS Keynote Presentation Freezes
As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing. Unknown During a keynote presentation with my iPhone, the presentation froze a couple of times. Not sure why. It worked without a hitch when I...
View ArticleSmall Remote for iOS Keynote Presentations
“I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. That’s the only way to be sure.” Ellen Ripley in “Aliens” When you do a presentation with your iPhone, you might have a problem if you are used...
View ArticleOxford Union Society’s “Freedom of Speech and Right to Offend” Debate
Some people’s idea of [free speech] is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage. Winston Churchill Oxford Union Society has an interesting debate...
View ArticleThe Freedom to Create
A “critic” is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased – he hates all creative people equally. Excerpt from the...
View ArticleTwo Quick Video Recommendations: Cultural Libertarian and Trigger Warnings
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. G.K. Chesterton I’ve recommended Bokhari’s “Rise of the Cultural Libertarians“ before in this posting (seriously, check his article out,...
View ArticleBook Recommendation: “The Martian” by Andy Weir
Last night was weird. I knew logically that nothing bad would happen in just one night, but it was a little unnerving to know I had no life support other than heaters. My life depended on some math I’d...
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