That’s so cool! I really miss Chicago some days.

Frankly, I only go on Facebook a few times a month to occasionally check in. I feel like logging in daily is not the point of the service.

It shouldn’t be the point, but Facebook wants it to be, because the more eyeballs looking at their site, the more money they get. In order to maximize eyeballs, they make their site as addictive as possible.

One of my colleagues spent a lot of time working on combination anthropological/aid missions. According to him, toilets/waste disposal was usually the number one way to help people in remote or less developed areas.

Strong agree. Unfortunately, it seems that many sites do this. Many I know refuse to use them for this reason.

This general area (epigentics) is what inspired me to take up a more serious routine of lifting. I’m not sure if it will have any particular effect, but I suppose I am significantly healthier now than in my 20s either way.

As a former employee of one of these (quite famous), the curricula are oftentimes relatively good, with an emphasis on practical skills. But it’s difficult for me to see them as a good thing given the issues marked out. Many of them take lots of government money (through GI bill etc) as well

I would have loved this during my post-doc!

you can always do another post-doc :P

Jokes aside, if you have time to get in touch with us we'd love to chat about the experience you had with the tools (or the lack thereof ) during your post doc!

As a kid I always thought spandex or whatever bike riders were huge dorks who got scammed into wasting their money. If you’re driving around your home area a few times a month (or even week) I doubt that you’re anywhere near good enough that your clothing matters this much.

Similar with people who suck at guitar but own a $3000 Gibson or whatever. I feel like good equipment while you’re bad just makes you look like a joke. Perhaps this is a blue collar ethic though

> If you’re driving around your home area a few times a month (or even week) I doubt that you’re anywhere near good enough that your clothing matters this much.

From the social signaling angle, being clipped in and wearing spandex also says "this ride cannot possibly be for transportation," because it's quite impractical to go anywhere but back to your house dressed like that.

Really? I had one sort of similar because I took as many cross listed math electives as possible and avoided any software type courses, but even then I learned a lot less analysis, algebra, geometry than a good math student would learn