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Identifying impactful research topics
One of those things that a supervisor does is help a student find a research topic. But if you don't have a supervisor (or your supervisor isn't helping you!), you have to figure it out for yourself.
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Two kinds of job markets
If you're on the hunt for a technical knowledge-work-kind-of job, it’s useful to imagine that there are two kinds of job markets.
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Fundamental research vs. industry training
There’s a tension between physics profs, students, and industry.
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Launching rockets in the Australian desert
Twenty one years ago, I got to be part of the Hyshot team when they demonstrated the first-ever successful test flight of a scramjet engine.
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68 bits of unsolicited advice
68 bits of unsolicited advice by Kevin Kelly (founding executive editor of Wired magazine).