My dad got an art degree by taking one course per semester for years. He loved it. Got his degree last year. Retires this year.

Staring at the wall has been huge for my productivity.

I still use Google Scholar, but I have recently seen that it is also being enshitified. What’s the next best option?

In South Africa, I have seen plenty in the big cities, but nothing on the countryside.

That would be unequivocally bad.

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It is so much worse than that.

I spend my time researching the literature on a topic so that I can spend my time and energy writing a grant. It probably won’t get funded.

If it does, I get to do a bunch of work. It might involve travel, where I will do everything at minimum expense to save enough money for the coming lab work.

I will spend significant time getting the samples analyzed, spending most of the grant money. Then I will come up with a logical way to interpret the data.

I will spend more time sending a document around to coauthors. This may take months, or even years if the coauthors fight.

We eventually submit to a journal. It gets rejected.

We rewrite and submit again. A few months later, congratulations, you get to publish. Money please.

I work for the money to do the work, I work for the writeup, I fight for the acceptance, and I have to pay to publish.

It’s a stupid system.

Not sure, but I think it is a joke about him abandoning his wife, who is a person of color, to have a fling with this woman, who is white. Could be off.

Baking cookies from scratch is easy and cheap. Here’s NASA’s recipe: https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/sunspot-cookies/en/

Is there source material for this? Or is it just a joke?

Half your age + 7 is a reasonable formula for determining creep factor.

The blast blasted blubber beyond believable bounds.

Not exactly related, but I just learned about the Livonian Werewolf, and this seems like a good place to share. Old man in Latvia claimed he and other werewolves would go to Hell to fight the devil and kill witches.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiess_of_Kaltenbrun

They could have made it really interesting if Kylo Ren and Rey had joined forces, either for good or bad, and wound up facing off against Poe and Finn. But no.

It would not. The mass of the Earth doesn’t change, and angular momentum is conserved.

Hard to say what exactly a PhD teaches. It is a unique type of qualification that varies radically between situations, even in the same department. I can definitely say there is a difference between people with and without a doctorate, but many of the skills gained are soft skills.

Thank you for saving me from diving in the hole.

“This work was financially supported by the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Fukuoka University, Japan.”

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0001706X19301202?via=ihub

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0001706X19301202

“The electronic song “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites” reduces host attack and mating success in the dengue vector Aedes aegypti” - original article title.

Highlight: Adults entertained with music copulated far less than their peers

No.