I've officially been at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts for one week and it has been a hell of a week. From meeting amazing people while flying across the country to struggles while putting together my materials and experimental design for this study. If there's one thing I love, it's a [...]
Dear Fact Finders, Finding facts is tough. Sometimes it’s downright treacherous, for the body and the spirit. Im dedicating this blog post to a first-hand account from the trenches in lab, following some bad weeks. To be clear, I love this job. Research is purposeful, which is remarkable for a job. That said, risk [...]
Hi Fact Finders: In this week’s quick blurb I had the sudden and arresting realization that I can go completely off the rails and dive into why The Original Series of Star Trek has steadfastly remained one of my favorite television series of all time. It may come as no surprise that the character [...]
Dear Fact Finders: In our intelligence/GRE episode, we briefly mentioned our personal experiences with standardized testing, but I wanted to give you some more detail about my personal experience with standardized test scores and why in my opinion it is a flawed testing method. If I remember correctly I did fairly alright on the SAT [...]
Hey there Fact Finders: Today I want to give you a bit of an insider’s perspective to what it’s like to be a TA (or teaching assistant) for a university level course. Every teaching experience and course is unique, and this quarter will be the first time I am teaching all with other grad [...]
Christiane So Chapter 2! Mastodon Molars! I love this chapter because it’s near and dear to my heart. The lab that I am a part of at UCLA is a paleobiology lab, meaning that many of us conduct research related to paleontology and biology, or in other words, how organisms are changing over [...]
Christiane So, everyone has gotten through chapter 1, yes? I know, it’s pretty depressing to hear about how all our little amphibian friends are disappearing, but I think this a really important chapter and I’m glad that Elizabeth Kolbert, the author put it first in the book. One of the many things I [...]
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Below, we've listed the sources we've referenced in this episode of Insufficient Facts! If you'd like to dig deeper into any of the topics discussed, here's where you can do so.
