By dixie
Since slashing my blog consumption a couple months ago, I’ve become a slightly more balanced individual. Less frothing, more knitting, and so on. I’ve also gotten a lot more work done, though the success rate hasn’t changed. It does mean I had to wait for visitors to show up before I found out about new [...]
By kola bear
In the battle of life, it is not the critic who counts; nor the one who points out how the strong person stumbled, or where the doer of a deed could have done better.
The credit belongs to the person who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, [...]
By xaosseed
Bjorn Lomborg: Our priorities for saving the world on TED.com.
By dixie
Although I’ve used up the Starbucks card I received as a thank-you gift from one of my students at the end of my frosh chem teaching experience, the warm glow of happiness remained. It burned like an ember in the crushing darkness of doubt, resisting the crashing tides of criticism that drive any self-respecting postgrad [...]
By dixie
If you live in a country where Stardust is opening this weekend and you have any interest in seeing it, please consider going this weekend. Tonight, if you can.