Comments for Colin Purrington http://colinpurrington.com Wed, 08 May 2013 15:17:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on Gratuitous suggestions for car brake lights by Colin Purrington http://colinpurrington.com/2011/gratuitous-suggestions-for-car-brake-lights/#comment-10344 Colin Purrington Wed, 08 May 2013 15:17:40 +0000 http://colinpurrington.com/?p=2483#comment-10344 I’ve also logged this suggestion on betterfic: http://betterific.com/colinpurrington/car-brake-lights-FLASHED-when-braking-Rate-of-pulse-would-go-up-as-pedal-depressed-harder-to-signal-to-cars-behind-to-pay-extra-attention-Especially-needed-because-rear-lights-are-red-so-people-behind-have-no-clear-indicator-currently-when-car-in-front-is-using-brakes-which-activate-ANOTHER-red-light/6287

]]> Comment on Update on The Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research plagiarism charge by Colin Purrington http://colinpurrington.com/2013/update-on-plagiarism-charge-by-consortium-for-plant-biotechnology-research-inc/#comment-10343 Colin Purrington Tue, 07 May 2013 19:11:37 +0000 http://colinpurrington.com/?p=4419#comment-10343 In other news, I’ve reconstituted my page on plagiarism, http://colinpurrington.com/tips/academic/preventing-plagiarism, which I first published circa 1998 at Swarthmore College.

]]> Comment on Update on The Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research plagiarism charge by Colin Purrington http://colinpurrington.com/2013/update-on-plagiarism-charge-by-consortium-for-plant-biotechnology-research-inc/#comment-10342 Colin Purrington Tue, 07 May 2013 19:09:17 +0000 http://colinpurrington.com/?p=4419#comment-10342 Oh, I’d like to thank the person on St Simons Island who has offered to take me out to dinner. Very kind.

]]> Comment on Update on The Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research plagiarism charge by Colin Purrington http://colinpurrington.com/2013/update-on-plagiarism-charge-by-consortium-for-plant-biotechnology-research-inc/#comment-10341 Colin Purrington Tue, 07 May 2013 16:27:35 +0000 http://colinpurrington.com/?p=4419#comment-10341 Please note that “preproposals” should probably be “pre-proposals.” I didn’t want to correct their grammar in the body of the post.

]]> Comment on Example of bad scientific poster by Colin Purrington http://colinpurrington.com/2012/example-of-bad-scientific-poster/#comment-10280 Colin Purrington Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:44:03 +0000 http://colinpurrington.com/?p=3016#comment-10280 Some commentary: http://www.metafilter.com/114629/3D-graphs-belong-in-Time-magazine-and-1st-grade

]]> Comment on Ornamental Darwin by ‘Tis the season for evolving… | The Dispersal of Darwin http://colinpurrington.com/2012/ornamental-darwin/#comment-10272 ‘Tis the season for evolving… | The Dispersal of Darwin Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:53:38 +0000 http://colinpurrington.com/?p=3685#comment-10272 [...] Purrington has a Darwin ornament you can print out and fold then hang on your [...]

]]> Comment on Yams and sweet potatoes are not potatoes by Tomato, Tomahto « Grey House Journal http://colinpurrington.com/2011/yams-and-sweet-potatoes-are-not-potatoes/#comment-10267 Tomato, Tomahto « Grey House Journal Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:26:12 +0000 http://colinpurrington.com/?p=2321#comment-10267 [...] I found this graphic interesting. Notice the odd assortment of things evolving such as Cannibis, potato, Ginko and tomato. Source [...]

]]> Comment on Darwin on the floor LHAO by Sam http://colinpurrington.com/2012/darwin-on-the-floor-lhao/#comment-10259 Sam Thu, 01 Nov 2012 07:47:53 +0000 http://colinpurrington.com/?p=3066#comment-10259 FYI, here is a refutation in shareable graphic form, in case it might be useful.

]]> Comment on Layout for conference poster by gioby http://colinpurrington.com/2012/layout-for-conference-poster/#comment-9847 gioby Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:06:30 +0000 http://colinpurrington.com/?p=3374#comment-9847 Nice template for the poster. The only thing is that I would avoid to use the Mercador’s proyection, especially if you are showing a map of Africa, and to people interested in explaining how important prevention in Africa is.

See this article: http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/cartography

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