February 2011
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Half a dodo and pickled baby moles →
The Guardian reports on the discovery of half a dodo skeleton during the move of the Grant Museum to new quarters. The article notes that the museum’s contents also include:
“an old sweet jar full to the brim with pickled baby moles, their paws pressed pathetically against the glass,”
Now that I have to see. A true Hunterian Museum of the animal kingdom.
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What makes your day if you're a PhD student
According to my colleague, Fabio.
You find a new place where coffee is cheaper
You realise you can park for free at weekends
A weekly seminar gets cancelled
You find clean glassware
You find glassware
The cafe where you go for lunch has 1 sandwich left (that is edible)
Something you ordered 3 weeks ago and desperately need finally arrives.
Your supervisors didn’t (completely) crush...
5 ways to fail your PhD « The Thesis Whisperer →
4. Write a bad literature review
Oh boy. Where do I start? There are so many ways to write a bad literature review that it deserves a few posts on its own. The literature review is the nice party frock of your thesis. If the examiner sees that you have chosen the right frock for the occasion they are more likely to want to have a drink with you. It goes without saying your frock should be...
“The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles...”
– Robert Frost (via thisheartofstone)
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“I want to put flowers in your hair. But what flowers? There are none with...”
– Rainier Maria Rilke to Lou Andreas-Salomé
Confessions of a Prep School College Counselor →
Catlin Flanagan’s article in The Atlantic on US college admissions, its fashions, fads and quirks, provides many parallels to UK universities; especially the shifting pack of fashionable universities for the mass of Oxbridge rejects.
“Musik ist wohl nur in der Form der Hingabe erfahrbar”
– Wolfgang Rihm
Music is probably only experienced in the form of devotion.
“I know Opera - yawn - get this, right! … Opera is amazing, theres violence,...”
– Martyn Hutchby
The Nunc Dimitis from The Gloucester Service by...
“[I] would like to publicly salute the teenage boy that was trying to make it...”
– From a friend’s Facebook status. Hopeless romantics, the lot of us.
January 2011
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