Tag Archives: science

Need a PhD Topic? How about cops in traffic

March 22, 2012 – 8:18 am

In my very occasional series of posts where I give ideas for PhD thesis topics (see the all time hit the students are fighting over, Fractal dimension as measurement of quality) I give you another path to your doctorate. That is if you are in the Operations Research field. Sorry biologists. I am sure we all [...]

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Feeling torn over museums

March 5, 2012 – 11:08 am

I love museums.  From a very young age my parents brought me to museums and I have very fond (if vague) memories of visiting the Peabody Museum of Natural History staring up at huge dinosaur skeletons.  Being close enough to New York, I was really luck to have the American Museum of Natural History, the Bronx Zoo, [...]

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On the Shoulders of Giants – How it differs for Hard Science vs. Social Science

February 9, 2012 – 9:20 am

Bernard of Chartres used to say that we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by [...]

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