Links & Blogs
Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens
General Interest
As some of the linked articles in the Of Interest to Graduate Students section suggest, it is good to get out of the lab occasionally. Here is a list of places I like to go to escape.
Great Falls, VA
Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens (especially when the lotus are in bloom)
National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, National Mall
ANSC Barn and Silo at UMd
Of interest to Graduate Students
Science Magazine, The Scientist, and other science-oriented websites post informative and helpful articles about dealing with stress in graduate school and finding jobs.
Why scientists should take breaks
Reading fiction can relieve stress
click on the bold text above or the button below to go directly to Science careers website
Blogs/Sites with advice for graduate students
The Scientist: https://www.the-scientist.com/tag/careers
Advice Blogs:
Advice from Meghan Duffy's blog post on formatting CVs
Image credit: NASA/Space Telescope Science Institute
Cool stuff
Image of the Day (NASA) -Often the images of space remind me of cellular structures such as adjacent pronuclei in a fertilized egg - see the Ant Nebula above.
New Food Economy - Food is important. We need to eat - where, what, how, why - read about the issues of where our food comes from, how it is produced, what are the issues and why.
Science and Fiction Did you know that devices envisioned on Star Trek are in use now or under development?
There’s the obvious examples- cell phones, tablets/iPads, and voice recognition.
Scientists are also working on developing cloaking devices
and NASA is testing 3d printing of food
not to forget - 3D printing of organs.