Donnerstag, 16. November 2017
Dr. AD
Ph.D. students face significant mental health challenges
"Approximately one-third of Ph.D. students are at risk of having or developing a common psychiatric disorder like depression, a recent study reports. Although these results come from a small sample—3659 students at universities in Flanders, Belgium, 90% of whom were studying the sciences and social sciences—they are nonetheless an important addition to the growing literature about the prevalence of mental health issues in academia. ..."

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Mittwoch, 15. November 2017
Retraction Watch
How a made-up article got almost 400 citations
"Pieter Kroonenberg, an emeritus professor of statistics at Leiden University in The Netherlands, was puzzled when he tried to locate a paper about academic writing and discovered the article didn’t exist. In fact, the journal—Journal of Science Communications—also didn’t exist."

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Dienstag, 14. November 2017
Construction

Rem Koolhaas - The Future Of The Way We Live, Love And Work

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Montag, 13. November 2017
Computational Planning Science
entwurfsforschung.de
Computational Planning Science "describes the synthesis of engineering, mathematics, and computer science. In the context of this website I use it to describe various methods to generate, analyze, and optimize spatial configurations."

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Dienstag, 7. November 2017
being there is everything
Being there is everything - COP as the Olympic Games of climate change?

Dabei sein ist alles - die COP als Olympische Spiele des Klimawandels?

#spontanaphorismus

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Sonntag, 5. November 2017
osm
osmlanduse.org
OSM Landuse Landcover is a WebGIS application to explore the OpenStreetMap database specifically in terms of landuse and landcover information.

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career stuff
Ungeleesen und unkommentiert:
- Many junior scientists need to take a hard look at their job prospects
- Why do people leave academia? - The results

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Samstag, 4. November 2017
ganzheitlich?

Christopher Alexander discusses his work on NPR

Nachtrag (14.11.2017): Spaces for the Soul. A documentary about the Architect, Mathematician Christopher Alexander

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Donnerstag, 2. November 2017
pp
There is a new arXiv called eartharxiv.org.
I‘m sure people will love it. But I guess I will continue with the original arxiv.org.

Nachtrag (4.11.2017): Links nachgereicht.

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Donnerstag, 26. Oktober 2017
Käse

Naturopathic Quesadillas - You Suck at Cooking (episode 67)

Die neue episode ist wieder ziemlich gelungen.

Unterdessen, lange nicht bei Jelle's Marble Runs
reingeguckt.

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