Category: Productivity

The Livescribe Pulse – A sweet pen you should probably get

The Livescribe Pulse pen is an awesome tool for anyone who needs to take notes (students, researchers, field workers, etc.). This post gives an overview of the features, limitations, and competitors to the Pulse.

Tuesday February 2nd, 2010 in Productivity, Technology | View Comments

The Future of Education

The most depressing class I ever took was freshman intro chemistry.  Granted, it was advanced intro chemistry (oxymoronic, but that’s how the course identifications work at MIT; extra numbers = harder, extra letters = easier).  So this was 5.112 (as opposed to the standard introductory 5.111).  So why was it so depressing?  I had learned [...]

Friday January 8th, 2010 in Commentary, Productivity, Society, Technology | View Comments

Zotero is magic for saving, organizing, and sharing documents on the web

The Citation Management Problem Most of you probably recall the disproportionately large emphasis elementary and secondary education often placed on “the bibliography.”  A significant amount of time was spent teaching you just how to cite someone else’s work in the right way.  Where does the author’s name go?  The edition?  The page numbers?  …Who cares? [...]

Sunday July 19th, 2009 in Productivity, Science, Technology | View Comments

What is Bioengineering?

It’s the first day of summer, and it’s high time I finally joined the big conversation happening on the internet.  Sure, I’ve been participating semi-passively through google reader, facebook, friendfeed, twitter, etc. for a while now.  I have alpha and beta accounts with just about every newfangled web service in existence.  But now I’d like [...]

Sunday June 21st, 2009 in Productivity, Science | View Comments