Category Archives: just for fun

0.80994 leagues under the sea

Posted on 16 November, 2017 by Kelle Freel

After a month on the water (and a few weeks getting my land legs again), I’m happily settling back in at home. I just returned from an expedition to a site known as North Pond along the western flank of … Continue reading →

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Of Of Mice and Men: High school English class lives on in scientific paper titles

Posted on 11 September, 2017 by Jeremy Yoder

Writing titles for scientific papers is hard. The title is the one element of the paper everyone reads if they so much as skim a journal’s table of contents e-mail. These days, you also want something that’ll fit in a … Continue reading →

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The last of us, Ph.D.

Posted on 23 May, 2017 by Jeremy Yoder

I hear tell that there’s another movie in the Alien franchise in theaters, which makes this a fine opportunity to revisit the beauty and stupidity of the last one, Prometheus. In that previous instalment, we watched people who were, allegedly, … Continue reading →

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