Here are all the humanities entries from the academic haiku contest. Please vote for your favorite by Monday night (Feb. 26). UPDATE: Voting is now in progress to choose the overall winner! Vote by 11:59 PM, Wednesday, February 28.
1.
Words like “so, you know”
glue onto pronouns; grammar
from faded meaning.
“The grammaticalisation of discourse markers in relative clauses”
2.
The [...]
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Vote for your favorite humanities haiku!
February 24th, 2007 — Academia, Contests
Vote for your favorite physical science haiku!
February 24th, 2007 — Academia, Contests
Here are all the phsyical science entries from the academic haiku contest. Please vote for your favorite by Monday night (Feb. 26). UPDATE: Voting is now in progress to choose the overall winner! Vote by 11:59 PM, Wednesday, February 28.
1.
C60 islands.
molecules do not like salt;
strange shapes resulting.
“Buckminsterfullerene on KBr studied by High Resolution NC-AFM: Molecular [...]
Polls are open!
February 24th, 2007 — Academia, Contests
Okay, folks, let’s get this show on the road! I’ve sorted the entries for the academic haiku contest into four broad categories to keep this manageable, so after finding a winner in each field, we’ll have a run-off for the overall best haiku of the bunch.* Polls in this first round will be open through [...]
Last day to enter the academic haiku contest!
February 21st, 2007 — Academia, Contests
I’ve been really happy with the response to the academic haiku contest. There are lots of excellent entries so far and part of me would like to keep this going. Alas, I’m sticking to the plan, so today is your last chance to enter the contest and be in the running for the $10 iTunes [...]
Win an iTunes gift certificate in the academic haiku contest
February 14th, 2007 — Academia, Contests
If you had to boil down the message of a book, article, or dissertation, how concise could you be? Inspired by “The Five Minute Dissertation” and a friend’s comment about rewriting her paper to meet space limitations for a journal, I’m sponsoring a competition for the best haiku poem summarizing original research. The winner, to [...]
The five minute dissertation will be televised
February 9th, 2007 — Academia
An excellent short video by a professor at Kansas State is getting a lot of press today and has already passed 520,000 views on YouTube. I read about it on LifeClever, but what actually got me to watch it was Seth Godin’s post called The Five Minute Dissertation. He says:
Publish or perish indeed. Now that [...]
Doctor, heal thyself: Ditch the books and write
January 25th, 2007 — Academia, Graduate School, Productivity
One principle that really stuck with me from Getting Things Done is the idea of freeing up your psychic RAM. Always write stuff down. File things. Minimize distractions in your workspace…stuff like that. Otherwise everything can build up and compete for your attention all at once.
One of the things I did in my office was [...]