I think this is the one of most useful books for a wannabe scientist. I checked it from a library.
アット・ザ・ヘルム—自分のラボをもつ日のために
At The Helm: A Laboratory Navigator (Handbooks)
I think this is the one of most useful books for a wannabe scientist. I checked it from a library.
アット・ザ・ヘルム—自分のラボをもつ日のために
At The Helm: A Laboratory Navigator (Handbooks)
These days news articles about Japan tend to be very negative probably because it actually offers not many positive news. If articles are not negative, these tend to cover very fringes side of Japan like whaling and geishas etc. Journalists have no incentive to introduce normal aspects of life of Japanese which are functioning very well. Therefore people in any country tend to have distorted images of other countries. The distortion can only be fixed by living in other countries for long time to see ‘a real world’ or probably such distortion will not disappear from the mind of some people, no matter what. Or even more amplified after unsuccessful integration due to culture or language barrier. And some of these ‘cultural drop outs’ become extremists or critics of a country they once used to admire or dream about. Bin Laden and many recent terrorists are these examples. But some Japanese also become ‘xenophobic’ after their stay in another country, while many of us gain invaluable experience to enhance their life.
Is Europe Turning Japanese?
By Stephen Fidler: WSJ
“The dismal growth prospects of many European countries has raised an increasing number of questions about whether large parts of the continent will emulate Japan of the 1990s and endure a decade-long economic stagnation. On the face of it, a long-lasting Japan-style post-bubble slump with deflation seems a plausible outcome for a large part of the continent.” Continue Reading
Interviews with Bill McKibben who wrote Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet.
Solving emerging problems by bio-synthetic engineering. Craig Venter tries to make synthetic organisms to make biofuel.
Craig Venter: On the verge of creating synthetic life
This will not likely solve the problem unfortunately. Something must be done fundamentally to shift the principle of economic growth. But blindly blaming and denying science and technology is equally stupid. We should try to shrive to be better and not to be illogical morons.
College instructors are living on food stamps and paid less than janitors. This cannot be good for college students, he argues.
Confessions of a Tenured Professor
May 11, 2010By Peter D.G. Brown“I must confess right off that I did not become a contingent labor activist until I turned 60, a mere six years ago. Until then, I was a fairly typical senior professor, passionately involved in teaching my students and interacting with my tenured colleagues on a variety of faculty governance committees. I have also pursued a fairly active research agenda. In addition to publishing my own scholarly articles, I have edited over a hundred books dealing with modern German literature, Jewish history and women’s studies. This year saw the publication of the third book I have written on Oskar Panizza, the 19th-century German author …
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I’m sure my tenured colleagues would find it totally unacceptable if they could be told at the end of any semester that they should simply leave, that there was no value to their accumulated expertise, thank you, because the college wished to hire a fresh young face at a lower salary.”
It seems all the industries in developed countries are on the verge of a mass extinction. But science and engineer disciplines look more promising or do they?
Can we improving language skills based on observations in research?
“The children in this study were early bilinguals whereas the adults were late bilinguals. It has been hypothesized that AoA modulates linguistic and cognitive processes because procedural learning declines as age progresses while declarative leaning increases (Hernandez and Li, 2007). It has been proposed that procedural memory relies on frontal-basal ganglia circuitry, while declarative memory relies on a medial temporal circuit (Ullman, 2001, 2005; Hernandez and Li, 2007). We found more L2 ToM specific activity in the vmPFC and putamen (among other regions) in children than adults (Table 2). Thus, alternatively, the age difference in ToM processing involving the L2 may be associated with a greater reliance of adults on the declarative memory involving the temporal regions, and children’s greater reliance on the procedural memory involving the frontal-basal ganglia region.” Continue Reading
Source: Sweetnam, DOE, April 2009
“But because conservatives have blocked or rolled back all serious efforts to move us off of oil in the last three decades, peak oil will soon change that (see Deutsche Bank: Oil to hit $175 a barrel by 2016 and World’s top energy economist warns peak oil threatens recovery: “We have to leave oil before oil leaves us”).”
Well it might get really expensive to fly.
Jupiter loses one of its stripes
One of the famous strips is gone.
The Japanese and English transcript are well constructed. Unfortunately, it seems he just read the script the night before the his speech. Obviously he did not practice hard enough, so he should have done it in Japanese. Convincing speech in Japanese would have been much more persuasive than his horrible English speech. His speech did not have any flow; just flat 14 minutes mumbling was really painful. He should have known that cramming the speech on the night before the talk is not enough. If he thinks he did well, then he is hopeless. I hope they provided translation to the audience since I doubt people understood his speech without it. I am sure he did not understand his own speech well by himself. Continue Reading
Here is a very interesting systematic analysis on social lateral mobility and is the main theme of this entry. I lived in both countries so the results are not so surprising.
Pew Finds Economic Mobility Rates Differ for Canadians and Americans