First Blog

A.   “It’s good not to be boring.” --- Nobel laureate Gary Ruvkun B.   When teachers have mediocre or poor students, they get sloppy, careless, or pedantic; they don’t teach; they preach. C.   It’s very rare that things work the first time. --- Nobel laureate Pierre Agostini

Tips for Retirement - Redux Y ou’re going to retire, plan to retire, or you are retired.  What to do? First, I’m retired and seem to be doing okay. I’d like to offer a few tips – generally from my working plan. 1.       Know yourself, and especially the little tricks you play on yourself. If you say you don’t know the tricks you play, that is one of your tricks. 2.       Save money. Build your nest egg while you’re still working. This takes years of discipline, self-denial, and self-limitations. Examples: Limit new car purchases and fancy vacations. 3.       To have any level of comfort, you’ll probably need at least a million stashed in some funds that earn interest. Assume about 3% annual inflation long into the future. Plan to live on the interest and hopefully dividends. Try not to draw down the principal. Finally, living only on Social Security cannot be fun. 4....

  The same information can lead to two different but correct solutions. It's all in your perspective. 

  Found in the year 4388, a sculpture of a 21st-century woman at a museum of ancient art. This image was made with Grok.

  A.     “I felt really alone and isolated at school. This “outsider” feeling drove me to take risks and prove doubters wrong, and later influenced my choices as a scientist.” --- Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna Figure 1 Jennifer Doudna B.     Thinking is not unlike running. For both, periods of rest are necessary. For both, training and practice are necessary. For both, there are good days and bad. For both, there are desires, limitations, hard work, and huge satisfaction. C.     Great teachers need great students as much as great students need great teachers. 

A.    Arrogance is assuming that everyone who disagrees with you is ignorant. B.   B..    Great thinkers are like moonshiners. They distill the great idea from a mish-mash of thoughts.   B.     C.   The difference between horses and arguments. Don’t change your horses in midstream – so they say. For horses maybe, but for some, the only way to win an argument is to change it - in midstream.