We often talk about emotional trouble as painful. We feel hurt by rejection, we smart from hurtful remarks, We get burned by a bad relatio...

I love doing science. But some things I love doing less than others. Rewriting papers is one of them. Editing and resubmitting a paper is...

Ikea has always been a great place when you live abroad. They sell Swedish foods and drinks, candy and chocolates that are hard or impossibl...

I was going to post a different thing early this week but it just sort of fell through. Instead, let us celebrate the very apex in human mus...

No real time for a longer post this week. So, instead, a small collection of notes: Google has gotten a lot of criticism for it's real ...

Network socket programming is fun and challenging, with lots of interesting sub-problems and many chances to learn new things about your sys...

If you're involved in academic publishing then this piece in Nature (open to all, as far as I can tell) about the system of paper ret...