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Steps of Scientific Method - Meme version
I’m not one to reblog meta-memes, but I think anyone who’s been in research as long as me knows that, at least 99% of the time, that last box should be this:
Followed by this:
(Found these on WhatShouldWeCallGradSchool.tumblr.com, which is like therapy, only way funnier. You should be following it.)
(Source: biomedicinapadrao.com)
- The Oatmeal publishes an awesome comic reminding us of the tortured genius that inhabited the body known as “Nikola Tesla”. It also spent a lot of time calling Thomas Edison a profiteering douche-canoe.
- Forbes (yes, Forbes) published a rebuttal to the Oatmeal comic,…
Ethan Zuckerman offers an innovative idea to quantify attention paid to various things on the internet. The unit of measure? The amount of attention Kim Kardashian gets in one day. As he explains:
The Kardashian mentions how much attention is paid, not how much attention is deserved, so naming the unit after someone who is famous for being famous seems appropriate. Should the unit be adopted, I would hope that future scholars will calculate Kardashians using whatever public figure is appropriate at the time for being inappropriately famous.
So how do things size up in Kardashians? Angelina Jolie gets about 0.35 Kardashians, The Kony 2012 campaign peaked at 7.7 Kardashians, but now sits at a paltry 5 centiKardashians.
As for me? Searches for this blog are registering no higher than the nanoKardashian range. And searches for my name are mostly people misspelling “Scarlett Johansson”. You gotta start somewhere!
(via Kottke)
