Next semester I’ll be taking my “lab science” : astronomy. I love the fact that my lab involves staring at stars. But more than that, I’m fascinated by the development of the meaning of the study of astronomy. I hope to study and write about that; but even now, before it has become a conscious [...]
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Notes on Note-taking
By Robert Minto in Organization, Scholarship, StrategyAnn Blair’s article “Note-taking As an Art of Transmission”, has finally kicked me in the direction of explicitly formulating my own method. My method has been developing over the past two years; now, I have finally achieved a level of technical proficiency such that I no longer look back on books and lectures with regret [...]
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