Spreadsheets, Data, and Survival

Dear Future CURI Researcher, Data entry has a bad rep. Sure, typing in all those records can take a long time, and doesn’t usually make the top ten list of mentally stimulating activities, but when done right, the process can be downright enjoyable. Listed below...

Some Problems Have Solutions

From now on, rule number one is “no shortcuts.” No more trying to do the same work with less effort, no more ending up with a lower quality product. Maybe shortcuts work for some people, but they don’t work for me! Especially not the ones inspired by...

Bringing Data to Life

For the past few weeks, we have been struggling with the same great question that confronts all researchers: how can we bring our data to life? After months of digging in the desert, a team of paleontologists must decide how to display the dinosaur skeleton they...

Ida Rubinstein, Woman Extraordinaire

From the beginning, Ida Rubinstein’s life was anything but average. Born in 1885 to wealthy Jewish parents and orphaned nine years later, she was brought up by a wealthy aunt in St. Petersburg, where she received a top-of-the-line European education (multiple...

Maurice Ravel and Paris

Of all the composers at the fore of the early twentieth century, Ravel is one of the most well known. While Poulenc, Milhaud, and Honegger are familiar names among musicologists, Ravel and Debussy have achieved a place in the general public’s vocabulary. Most...