This article was originally published on October 28th. Read it for some ideas that should be learned from the past and taken into this new year. Happy 2012! – – – On Tuesday, I spent two hours straight in a meeting. Normally, sitting still that long would be torture — [...]

In case you missed it, this article was originally published on October 21st.  – – – Dumpster diving has never been my cup of tea. But when it comes to science, it turns out that you can convince me to tackle all sorts of less-than-glamorous tasks, including creeping around the [...]

In case you missed it, this article was originally published on October 14th.  – – – What does an oceanographer do, anyway? Pet sharks all day?” I’ll always remember the haughty tone of those words, delivered in my first week of graduate school at MIT, by one of my classmates [...]