Tag: academics

Rules to writing a thesis

After a long and stressful day of researching and discussing PhD and PhD/MD programs, I decided that I needed a little humour. Keeping in the vein of today’s primary topic, however, I thought it appropriate to look for comics related to graduate school. Further, given that a professor of mine had several comic strips from …

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Desire: More than a streetcar?

I’m currently reading the book Boys Adrift by Leonard Sax, MD, PhD. Though I will surely write a detailed review and critique of his work when I finish it, I found a statement in his book so intriguing that I believed immediate mention to be warranted. About halfway through the sixth chapter, which is about …

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Science presented in the media

Having just finished a paper on how the media presents scientific findings, I thought I would share it with the world. Basically, this is an anecdotal investigation which focuses on an article by John Cloud that can be found in the TIME Magazine issue from 28 January 2008. In case you don’t have access to …

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