Sentences with phrase «like lab time»

We need to develop better understanding of what makes a good online course («just sticking a camera in front of someone... who has a captive audience [won't cut it]») and how to replicate non-lecture experiences like lab time and study groups.

Not exact matches

The digital platform we're experimenting with, designed by Waterloo - based Plasticity Labs, asks us to make daily estimates of our happiness on a scale of 1 - 100 and to occasionally answer questions like, How often do you make time for things that make you happy?

Gayno and his fellow Googler Jeff Baxter had spent a lot of time working with the company's secretive project lab Google X, building products like Google Glass and Android Wear.

Like Kenney, Maria Popova, a cross-training cool hunter and MIT «Futures of Entertainment» fellow, was a former writer for The Atlantic, Wired UK, The New York Times, Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab, and other publications.

To sustain a startup - like attitude, in 2009 the Henderson, Nev. - based e-commerce giant launched Zappos Labs, a San Francisco division staffed with 11 full - time employees dedicated to exploring what consumers want out of their shopping experiences, then creating new ways for them to engage on the main site.

Companies like 3M and Google have institutionalized the Bell Labs tradition of allowing its researchers to follow their own interests on company time.

In these lean, early days, Other Lab has only three full - time employees: Griffith, the mechanical engineer and so - called lead scientist; Jim McBride, a fellow MIT postdoc and the house physicist (who happens to be on vacation during my visit); and Jonathan (Jach) Bachrach, yet another MIT guy who is technically a software engineer but like the other two has a far broader purview.

Given that natural selection has held up since Darwin's time and wonderfully explains what we see and do in the lab and things like why it's hard to treat viral infections and why there are an increasing number of antibiotic resistant bacteria, I don't expect it to change much in the next 10 years.

She knows that every time we choose open - door living — whether in our homes or by taking hospitality on the road just like Jesus — those we invite in get to experience the lived - out Gospel, our kids grow up in a life - lab of generosity, and we trade insecurity for connection.

Other indications of evolution are too numerous to actually list in full, but a few might be the clear genetic distinction between Neanderthals and modern man; the overlapping features of hominid and pre-hominid fossil forms; the progressive order of the fossil record (that is, first fish, then amphibians, then reptiles, then mammals, then birds; contradicting the Genesis order and all flood models); the phylogenetic relationships between extant and extinct species (including distributions of parasitic genetic elements like Endogenous Retroviruses); the real time observations of speciation in the lab and in the wild; the real time observations of novel functionality in the lab and wild (both genetic, Lenski's E. coli, and organsimal, the Pod Mrcaru lizards); the observation of convergent evolution defeating arguments of common component creationism (new world v. old world vultures for instance); and... well... I guess you get the picture.

If it were an accident, the first time it caused rashes and or nose bleeds and diarrhea, they would have written what caused it in my Medical Records to stop others from causing the adverse reactions, but no, they have to try to prevent a Law Suit and write that I am delusional about the adverse reactions so every Doctor after that forced the adverse reactions on me and or refused to give me the Medical Treatment actually need, while they make money off charging the government for the Toxic Harmful Drugs that a Judge ordered them not to give me, tut they just falsely called me delusional about the Court Orders, to made money poisoning me with Toxic Drugs and Rash Creams, but normally they do that to their suspecting Victims to make money off doing Kidney transplants like they did to my Uncle, but they will not replace mine, because that is what they planned to do to kill me, just ask their associate assassin Dr Kanter of the Minneapolis VA, of course he will say I am delusional after he assaulted me saying the other Hospital Labs were wrong about that Blood Test that show the harm they caused.

I'm so grateful for people like Amisha running the JAM LAB to save me when I just can't find the time to figure out how to make something this stellar from scratch.

not food like substances that have spent time in factories getting enhanced by lab created vitamins the body can't process anyway.

I cried several times knowing exactly what it feels like to sit in that doctor's waiting room, in front of his desk as he gives the news, in the MRI lab waiting for my child to emerge, and at home wondering when the symptoms will end and my child will be healed.

At a guess, they're the ones who hate Nick Clegg but like Vince Cable and don't want the party to be destroyed — and therefore could coherently both 1) hate the coalition and 2) want to see a Lab / Lib pact next time.

twitter just like any other time you're asked a Q, spk without thinking & you'll end up like that Lab candidate in Scotland!

Doing research in the Lehn lab, he says, was like trying to catch a high - speed train, all the time.

If you thought it was ok to take off for two months, perhaps your professors didn't feel so bad about using their time on their own research, students who prioritized their work enough to stick around the lab, or — heaven forbid — on their own free time, just like you were doing.

If you need quiet time and the lab environment is too noisy, or if you like to work with minimal interruptions, make arrangements to work at home or in the library, or to work in the lab when fewer people are around.

Jump at the chance to ask their postdocs what it is like to work in the lab, and grill the PhD students about the time they are expected to spend at the bench; and if they have been left back in the lab, ask yourself why.

I still work in the lab; it is not flash, it stinks like a lab, and we trip over each other all the time, but on the whole I think we function well as a unit.

She decided, instead, to focus on aspects of her grad school program she does control, like how she spends her time in the lab, for example, and how she would respond — in the most measured, professional way possible, she decided — to her advisor's social mood swings.

At the same time, researchers have found that much smaller protein clusters called oligomers — made of only a few copies of these proteins — can be highly toxic to motor neuron - like cells grown in the lab and thus are more likely to be the chief causes of brain - cell death in these diseases.

David Grimm — online news editor for Science — talks with Sarah Crespi about the potential of treating lab animals more like us and making them more useful for science at the same time.

«In 5 years -LSB-'s time], I would like to see how the lab is doing, what we have achieved, and what are our future plans and challenges, and then will decide for my next step,» says Alexopoulou.

By using laser - generated, hologram - like 3D images flashed into photosensitive resin, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, along with their academic collaborators, have discovered they can build complex 3D parts in a fraction of the time of traditional layer - by - layer printing.

However, by using laser - generated, hologram - like 3D images flashed into photosensitive resin, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, along with collaborators at UC Berkeley, the University of Rochester, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), have discovered they can build complex 3D parts in a fraction of the time of traditional layer - by - layer printing.

• Nothing drains time from lab work like family; therefore, purge all references to family from your workplace.

The program works like this: Full - time faculty members with independent research programs (postdocs are not eligible) apply via the program's Web site; researchers holding equivalent positions in industry of nonacademic labs may also apply.

He used to lift weights a lot, too, so he looked kind of all buffed out — like the kind of guy who spent more time in the gym than he ever would spend in the lab.»

By the time patients show up and get blood work done, the virus is often no longer detectable and the antibodies that could be picked up by a CDC lab may look like those for the more common dengue.

Erdman and his lab have been interested in bioactives in foods like soy, tomato, and broccoli for some time, particularly for reducing the risk of cancer.

10 The lab - accident rate in schools and colleges is 100 to 1,000 times greater than at firms like Dow or DuPont.

But at the time, it felt like a one - way step: If I took the internship, there would be no going back to the lab and the comfort of a job that I knew I was good at.

Like Barnes and Bero, she runs a lab, teaches classes, and serves as an editor part - time.

In pursuit of a career as a medical science liaison for a pharmaceutical company, she sought out the chance to participate in clinical shadowing and conduct lab tours to learn and practice coveted skills like communication, time management, and relationship building, and to gain a better understanding of clinical practice.

In S&T's labs, researchers can create 200 pounds of steel at a time, whereas big steel manufacturers like Nucor, where O'Malley was chief metallurgist before joining S&T, would have to make 170 tons of steel for testing, O'Malley says.

The lab, at times, feels like a seething primordial soup of Darwinian selection, where only the strongest survive (i.e., publish papers in Science, Cell, or Nature), and the weak fade into oblivion (i.e., become anorexic, turn into technical sales reps, or go to law school).

And it again, it brought home to me the way in which Martin Gardner was at the hub of a vast universe of brilliant, sparkling intellect — including people like Marvin Minsky [at] the M.I.T. artificial intelligence lab; and John Conway who at the time was in England and later came to Princeton and who invented so many deep and fascinating mathematical ideas, especially the Game of Life, to which Martin devoted several columns and which was an incredibly important thing in bringing new ideas to the world of computation and about the cellular automata; and Donald Knuth at Stanford, the great computer [scientist]; Perci Diaconis a statistician who is fascinated by paradoxes of probability and a great magician as well; and Ray Hyman, a psychologist who had a spent a great deal of his life debunking people such as [Uri Geller]; and James Randi, one of the great magicians of our era who also was one of the most important debunkers of pseudoscience in the world.

Lab management and leadership instruction is a very small niche on the current job market, with many of the trainers doing it part - time (like Janssens) or even as volunteers.

But by the time he found himself doing a postdoc at Harvard Medical School (HMS) another issue had become more pressing — why did he see so few people like himself in the labs and lecture theatres?

Dividing your time between the lab and the hospital may seem like the ideal way to satisfy both intellectual and vocational desires, but juggling both careers brings a unique set of challenges and rewards.

Postdocs now required to use time sheets may find their roles becoming more like those of technicians, and labs with higher personnel costs may be thinking of rebalancing staff.

At the time, Bell Labs was developing liquid - junction photovoltaics (a type of solar cell that employs liquid electrolytes), which seemed like a nice fit for her electrochemical training.

«Cells in the lab, like cells in the body, acquire mutations all the time,» said McCarroll, co-corresponding author.

His lab's «empirical dynamic modeling» techniques use time - series data to look at the invisible ways these complicated systems are connected: like plucking one string out of a jumbled network and seeing which other strings echo back.

«Plants have, for a long time, provided us with valuable products like food, biofuels, construction materials and the oxygen we breathe,» notes plant biologist turned chemical engineer Juan Pablo Giraldo, a postdoctoral fellow in the research lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who did the work.

«I spent all my time in the lab, and I really felt like I wasn't part of anything,» he remarks.

Dr Marcus Cooke, lead inventor of the new process, said: «Like many other labs, we use the Comet Assay routinely in our research, but we have always been frustrated by the current process, which is laborious and time consuming.

No longer should we have to sneak out of lab like thieves in the night to get in an hour's swim or feel obligated to stay late to make up for time «lost» at a lunchtime yoga class.