Advice For Young Researchers

http://www.andrewoswald.com/docs/Young-faculty-researchers-PhDs-talk-Oswaldapril2013.pdf “If everyone likes your work, you can be certain that you haven’t done anything important.” “Conflict and pain go with the territory.” “The main difference between world-class researchers and sound researchers is not intellect; it is energy, single-mindedness, more energy, and the ability to withstand what will sometimes feel like never-ending disappointment,  tiredness and psychological pain. Tenacity […]

Mirrors, Cameras and Cultural Evolution

It’s safe to say that everyone reading this has seen an accurate reflection in a mirror. Everyone you know has seen their face in a mirror as well. A thousand years ago (a nanosecond in evolutionary time) virtually no one had. Mirrors are a big deal. Elephants and primates have been shown to be able […]

Yoga is the process of turning the impossible into the possible and then with a lifetime of practice making possible into easy.

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

~William Shakespeare