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Giving a Relationship a Chance to Last

The other day, we were talk­ing about how so many cou­ples enter into a rela­tion­ship in ways that almost guar­an­tees fail­ure as the out­come. The pre­cau­tion­ary finan­cial arrange­ments many make for the pos­si­bil­ity the rela­tion­ship might fail pre­clude a true … Con­tinue read­ing

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When Is a Doctor a Doctor?

Why does soci­ety value the M.D. away from her place of work so much more than it does the Ph.D. away from her place of work? I can under­stand the need to dis­tin­guish the M.D. from the Ph.D. in the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Nobel Prizes Are Not Sports Championships

In the midst of the dis­cus­sion of the loom­ing cri­sis over cuts to UK sci­ence bud­gets, there has been much pride in the fact that the work of three of the recip­i­ents of this year’s Nobel prizes in sci­ence was … Con­tinue read­ing

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UK Science: Does It Have a Future? Continued

I first wrote about the impend­ing dra­con­ian cuts to the UK sci­ence bud­gets back in July. Since that time, the sit­u­a­tion has not improved very much. Many sci­en­tists, and oth­ers, have banded together to fight the sit­u­a­tion through the Cam­paign … Con­tinue read­ing

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Football Season Starts; Let the Name Calling Begin!

For any inter­na­tional read­ers, I am talk­ing about the type of foot­ball played mostly in the US with a ball that has pointed ends by play­ers wear­ing what amounts to nearly full suits of armor. In other words, I do … Con­tinue read­ing

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So Doctorate What

When you work in a tech­ni­cal indus­try, there is often a pre­mium placed upon advanced degrees in a tech­ni­cal field of study. Being some­one upon whom a doc­tor­ate in the­o­ret­i­cal stud­ies of a phys­i­cal sci­ence has been con­ferred, I have … Con­tinue read­ing

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What Goes On In a Marriage?

Recently The New York Times pub­lished an arti­cle writ­ten by Tara Parker-Pope that makes many points that some may find sur­pris­ing about long-term mar­riages. Many of the key points of the arti­cle are quoted below. The truth is that most … Con­tinue read­ing

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We Need another Summer of Love

Peo­ple in gen­eral do not seem to be as nice as they used to be. We know that is a very broad gen­er­al­iza­tion, but the num­ber of times one of us has been pushed out-of-place in a line or inter­rupted … Con­tinue read­ing

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