The idea is neat but the execution is a tad lacking, isn't it? I guess they wanted to get the most mileage out of the 12-pack of Imperial troopers they already had bought?!?

True, but you have to eat raw human liver; even more fun to play as the boulder (unless you suffer from motion sickness)

The authors are aware of what you point out under 1) and 2) as stated in their paper. They were using the Yoruba genotypes simply because they are freely available data from the HapMap project. They then try to address the issues arising from doing so in their model in a way that they hope will correct for these…

The most important criterion when choosing a PI is do you get along with him/her. Second most important is do you like the kind of research their group is doing (ok, that is kind of tied with 1st, almost, i.e. if you really don't care for a potential PI's research then liking him won't help. But if the choice is…

The display says 'Kein Verkauf' which means 'No Sale [yet]', I guess for that day, but the picture was taken at 2:46 in the afternoon and on a Monday, so that's ok.

Hah, yeah! Or he could have shouted "DO NOT WANT, DO NOT WANT!"

In this particular case the reason for the "space shuttle" canard is probably that it was a good way of getting free labor for what he is really interested in building: a DIY motor glider for himself, for some weekend fun flying, take the ladies out for a spin over the Ugandan plains and lakes.

Sorry to say, but I disapprove. It clearly says capsule and tin can, not 'gigantic spherical space cruiser with vast promenade decks and panoramic windows'.

He also doesn't have satellite TV and therefore has been spared watching the 'Clone Wars'. I hope someone will warn him to not watch them should he ever sign up for satellite. Sometimes it is really better not to know.

In my humble opinion the Star Wars books ("Expanded Universe", whatever...) don't matter.

Yeah, 1 in 10, and that is really a big problem. It used to be 1 in 3 or 1 in 4 until just a few years ago. That wasn't so bad (or so I assume, I wasn't writing grants then) - you'd write 3-4 grant proposals a year, get one of them funded, each grant lasts up to 5 years so you are covered and can get lots of stuff…

I'm not really disagreeing with your disagreeing, you are right on most counts. But there is a certain 'return-on-investment' aspect to a university expanding its lab space and hiring faculty very much with the idea in mind of who will be the most fundable (and thus bringing in the most indirects).

Wow, those personnel costs are item per item only about half of ours here (Northern California - graduate students, technicians, postdocs - each position at least $60k per year, including benefits and in the case of graduate students their tuition, in the later years of their program).

For NIH grants the rate for indirects is typically 60%. But that's not really a problem since those 60% are not taken out of your budget - they are added on to your budget as indirect costs and go to the university.

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