Science and productivity by Dr. Christine Corbett Moran
I’ve been listening to the 80,000 hours podcast a lot recently*. On the podcast they had a discussion of why you should stop reading the news with Brian Caplan, which pointed to Rolf Dobelli’s book Stop Reading the News. I picked up the book, also read it, and promptly stopped reading (and watching or listening) Read More …
I’m delighted to be back doing numerical relativity research at Caltech after taking a year leave to deploy to the South Pole with the South Pole Telescope collaboration. I will continue to be involved with the South Pole Telescope data analysis in parallel with my work at Caltech to simulate formation pathways for supermassive black Read More …
As you might have heard on my website, my newsletter, my Twitter, or, if we’re colleagues at Caltech, at work, I am currently working on the South Pole Telescope (SPT) onsite at the South Pole in Antarctica for January-November 2016 (I am employed by the University of Chicago). I have taken a sabbatical from my NSF Astronomy Read More …