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When students asked me what subjects they should major in to become a tech entrepreneur, I would say engineering, mathematics, and science. I used to believe that education in these fields was a 
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While having the necessary skills is key to landing a new job, so is acing the interview.
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Many of these are good questions you should think about having an answer for before you head in for your interview.
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In 2005, Psychology Today published an article entitled “The Perils of Higher Ed.” The statement beneath the title reads, “College life can be downright detrimental. Sleep deprivation, a bad diet, and binge drinking can lead you to memory loss, alcoholism, and even Alzheimer’s.”
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While your capstone research should be your number one priority, it shouldn't push you to sleepless nights or other truly unhealthy behaviors.
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Other People's Rejection Letters / Random House Other People's Rejection Letters / Random House Author Gertrude Stein was probably fuming when she got this letter from publisher Arthur C. Fifield mocking her manuscript of "Three Lives."
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Rejection is part of the process.
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"Dear NSA, You can do whatever you want with my data. But not with my eyes."
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A great example of how well designed slides can be a massive improvement in clarity.
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How many times a day does a clock's hands overlap? If you face that question in a job interview and know the answer is 22, then good for you. But a Google executive says these questions don't help companies find better applicants.
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An example of some of the crazy interview questions some employers ask their employees.
You should always be ready for possible questions such as these in an interview. Rather than being interested in your answering them per se, employers often use such questions as something of a character litmus test. They generally want to see how you will respond in an unusual situation and the specific answer isn't really the point of the question.
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The article on the overlooked terrestrial impacts of mountaintop mining that appears on p. 335 of this issue provides a valuable overview of research on this destructive and polluting practice. The authors, James Wickham of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s National Exposure Research Laboratory, Petra Bohall Wood of the US Geological Survey’s (USGS) West Virginia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, and eight others, draw attention to the dearth of research on terrestrial—as distinct from aquatic—effects of this mining technique. But readers of the article should know that, after it went through peer review, revision, approval by a BioScience editorial board member, formal acceptance, editing byBioScience staff, and approval of the edits by the authors, Wickham and Wood wrote BioScience to say that the USGS required a change before the article could be published.
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When politics interferes with peer review and basic science.
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UCLA's version of an ESRM capstone.
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This is a great program at UCLA. Yours is more challenging in that you create your own projects and work individually or in much smaller teams than the UCLA students. And you need to seek your own funding. Doing your ESRM capstones is a harder stuggle, but that means you will come out of this better prepared with fewer things handed to you.
A list of their past class projects can be found here: http://www.environment.ucla.edu/academics/article.asp?parentID=2666
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One of the most frustrating problems in Excel is having a spreadsheet which dates are in a funny format that isn’t recognised by Excel. This hub explains how to fix this problem and put these troublesome dates into a format that Excel will recognise.
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This is a common problem we have encountered with excel, particulalry when switching from very old data files to a new version of Excel or from Mac to PC (and vice versa).
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Presentations and slideshows have been historically one of the most boring and standard corporate media currently available to employees and management. They are meant to purely educational or purely for selling -- they are very rarely anything but a pitch or a corporate update. But with the rise of Slideshare as a platform for sharing a new kind of presentation, a lean, value-adding, and stand-alone type of presentation, and its proof as a viable option for driving traffic, the “corporate presentation” can be leveraged for more than its functional purpose and optimized to spread the company or personal message via social media. Continue reading →
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This post should be retitled: how NOT to optimize a presentation.
While there is much to be said for being short and to the point, there is also such a thing as "no attention span" and a presentation designed for second graders. We are professionals and you should expect your audience to be interested in getting technical details, not a tweet.
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Jing captures anything you see on your computer screen and lets you share it instantly. Sign up for your free account!
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Jing might be a useful tool for any specific challenge you may have while working on analyses, etc. You can use this to record your screen and show me what is not working/what your are doing that is not working properly.
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PowerPoint, Keynote, and Skyrocket can create some great visual aids. Sadly, many presenters have never been taught the principles of presentation slide design. Via Baiba Svenca
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Generally, the best answer is NO ANIMATIONS. And almost never any of the sound effects. More on this on Monday...
Ali Anani's curator insight,
February 2, 2014 12:12 AM
The pyramid of designing slides for presentations 
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February 10, 2014 11:52 PM
Useful tips on animation plus a link for "how to" with PowerPoint.
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"Just as you shouldn’t trust everything you read or see on television, you should never blindly trust information just because it is on a map. All maps posit arguments. Maps present information about how something is. All maps posit arguments. Maps present information about how something is. Just as there are no unbiased arguments, there are no unbiased maps." Via dilaycock, John Purificati
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Map skills are vital in the study of democratic place and space. 
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Exercise 14 :
Read the news and answer the questions:
a.What is the news talking about ? b. There are two maps.Maps that is down has these questions ( Answer them ) : Who made the map?What is the purpose of the map? That is, what is the map attempting to communicate?Who is the intended audience? (It is important to remember that the map may not have been designed for you, but a more specialized audience.)Does the map effectively achieve its communication goals? Does it present an interesting story or argument?c.Sum up the news ( five sentences in english ) d.Choose another map ( of Internert if you want ) and answer the questions 1,2,3 i 4. Add the map.
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While the marketplace encourages creativity, the workplace is not the setting to showcase your fashion sense; rather, it is a place to represent your employer using good taste. If you want to be se...
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Always dress professionally for an interview or professional meeting. When in doubt dress more formally. Most of us work out in the field and therefore your potential employer understands you are capable of dressing down. You want to also show that your are capable of dressing in a professional manner and are capable of doing professional work.
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Dedicated to distilling the world’s data, information and knowledge into beautiful, interesting and, above all, useful visualizations, infographics and diagrams.
Some great examples of elegant presentations of quantitative data.
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My graduate school supervisor taught me all I know about professional email etiquette. Vague language? Poor form. Typos? Nothing worse. Run-on paragraphs? A big no-no. Spelling your recipient’s name wrong?
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Before you pick your college or major, check PayScale's College Salary Report to learn how that choice can affect what you earn after graduation.
Curious as to what the average starting salaries for your friends' from different majors might be? How do they compare with ESRM?
Find out here.
Just remember, these are national averages.
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Free templates and instructions for how to make a large-format poster for class projects and annual meetings with poster sessions.
Many of the suggestions Colin sugegsts here are identical to my own. I particularly like many of his "dos and don'ts."
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By Dana Nuccitelli and John Cook via Skeptical Science. A new survey of over 12,000 peer-reviewed climate science papers by our citizen science team at
Good example of graphics aimed primarily at a non-technical audience, but which argue technical points.
This is an example of the kind of scholarship you can do that builds upon the work of others (a so-called meta-analysis).
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The inequality in pay for women vs men is a real, persistent problem.
Here in Ventura County the magnitude of the disparity appears to be magnified by your education. Although everyone makes more money on average in absolute terms with more formal education.
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Many biological variables do not meet the assumptions of parametric statistical tests: they are not normally distributed, the variances are not homogeneous, or both. Using a parametric statistical test (such as an anova or linear regression) on such data may give a misleading result. In some cases, transforming the data will make it fit the assumptions better.
This website is a great resrouce for you to glance over before you start your formal statistical analyses. Please use this only as a refresher. See me and statistical texts for the full details on the assumptions for statistical tests, transformations for normality, etc.
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Twitter triumphed and failed overnight, in equally spectacular fashion.
Throughout much of the night and early morning, the San Francisco social media company served as one of the best sources for breaking news as the Boston area descended into a chaotic manhunt for the alleged marathon bombers.
This summary of the insane rush to publish information before it has been properly vetted in the wake of the Boston Marathon Bombings is the opposite of what we do in science.
Another story on the same event can be found at the LA Times: http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/20/business/la-fi-boston-bombings-media-20130420
This should also serve as a cautionary tale for why we need to be skeptical of internet feeds, ESPECIALLY when it is an unfolding story or a single source. You need to reference peer reviewed literature. Not this kind of twittery, googley, mashable crud.
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Artweaver, free download. Artweaver 3.0.4: Create impressive drawings with this free painting tool. We're used to see image editors, but drawing tools are not so thick on the ground. And a drawing apps
Free drawing tool to generate sketches useful for your presentations.
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There’s certainly no shortage of gizmos and gadgets for your iPhone. One of my favorite’s is the Steadicam Smoothee from Tiffen. I bought it some time ago for my iPhone 4S, but it ended up in the c...
While I am not expecting you guys to buy one of these. IF you are doing some intense videoing, this is a comparatively cheap way of doing some nice steady cam shots.
This is somewhat of a moot point for your ESRM majors. We have designed your major to be interdisciplinary and so you have a healthy smattering of humanities throughtout your undergraduate tenure. But it is still interesting to note the importance of haveing non-technical ("humanities") training for your subsequent work.