Tuesday, 16 October 2012

PhD week 32: Steady as she goes

Royal spoonbill Platalea regia
Royal Spoonbill Platalea regia. From igor_nz's flickr photostream. License: CC: BY-NC-SA

The PhD journey involves boldly entering new and exciting territory, and discovering new techniques and methods of analysis. It also involves doing the same thing over and over again. This past week has involved more of the latter. Dissections, databasing and communication with colleagues—this week has had all three with abundance.

The above does not mean that the week was somewhat ho-hum. On the contrary, many of the dissections I made this week were on species and genera that I have little familiarity with, and it was great seeing the results and thinking about what it all means in the greater context.


Read:
   Polkinghorne J. 1996. Beyond Science. The Wider Human Context.Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
   McCulloch D. 2010. A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years London: Penguin
   Teilhard de Chardin P. 1955. The Phenomenon of Man London: Fountain
   The Qur'an Surat 5: Al-Maaida via Zekr
   Psalms 127–129

Websites:
Boops Boops—Self publishing "failed" thesis chapters on Figshare
Ask Ubuntu: Convert PDF to image

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