How a couple of students with too many books went and created their own public library.
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Citizen scientists take part in the same struggle as nearly everyone else on the planet, which is the quest to be taken seriously.
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If ever there was a time for starting a journal to record your own small part in all this, it is now.
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Behind most great discoveries in natural science is a deep foundation of field work.
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Apps are great helps for citizen science, but “old school” field notes remain a powerful tool for becoming a competent naturalist.
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I like to see an old technology make a comeback, and I am pleased to report that this is happening with the humble index card.
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Materials from a recent presentation I gave on cybersecurity and keeping yourself safe online.
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By Sheldon Greaves It’s been conventional wisdom for a long time that a strong password must be a complex affair. Consisting of longish strings in which capital letters turn up in unlikely places, along with numbers and special characters to … Continue reading
With a little help from some free software, you can turn YouTube videos into audio files, to listen to later at your leisure.
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By Sheldon Greaves The quote above is a less well-known ancillary to Sun Tzu’s more famous quote: “Know your enemy as you know yourself, and in one hundred battles you will not be in peril. This post is about intellectual … Continue reading