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3 monitors

To be more “productive”, I recently upgraded my work space. I used to have 2 monitors side by side. Both of them are View Sonic but they are of different size and one is old. So I purchased two monitors (Dell U2415). Together with one ori
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Stork is my best research assistant (2): Grant alert

Does my boss have money? I am looking for a postdoc position; does my future boss have enough funding to support me? How much money was awarded to my field (e.g. NIRS)? And who got the money? What are they going to do with the money? Have you ever wo
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今天看到好视频:老树画画 《做一个梦》

看这个视频真是痛快!去他妈的“成功”!为别人活有什么用? youtube版: youku版:
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Stand-up Working

When working, I spend most of my time in front of a computer – writing emails, programming, data analysis, powerpoint, web browsing etc. For many years I always use one position in front of a computer – sitting, similar to this picture: S
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Stork is my best research assistant

When I was a graduate student at Baylor College of Medicine, I found myself often in an embarrassing situation — I felt completely lost when my fellow graduate students heatedly discussed a paper in our field but I never heard of this publicati
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文献鸟Stork是我的科研好帮手

我在Baylor College of Medicine读研究生的时候经常遇到一种尴尬局面,就是同学们在热烈讨论本领域某篇文献的时候,我一脸茫然 — 因为我压根就不知道这篇文章。回头Pub
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How much money did I make from an app?

Undoubtedly some people are very successful in making money by developing a smartphone app. Back in 2012 I developed an app called “Handbook of Brain” which is a collected resources of brain anatomy, function and diseases. I put the app i
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Excel tip: how to unhide the first column

When you hide column A, you may have assumed it’s very easy to unhide it later. It’s not true. Here is how you unhide column A: 1. Type “A1” in the cell selector box, press Enter 2. click “Format” in the cells tool
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An interesting gamble

The other day I was walking on a street, along which there are a lot of booths where people play games to gamble. I stopped in front of one booth. The host was warm and we started to talk. “How to play?”, I asked. “Well, simple.R
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