by Sam Parker | Jul 12, 2016 | CURI Summer 2016
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...
by Sam Parker | Jul 8, 2016 | CURI Summer 2016
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...
by Sam Parker | Jun 22, 2016 | CURI Summer 2016
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...
by Sam Parker | Jun 17, 2016 | CURI Summer 2016
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...
by Sam Parker | Jun 16, 2016 | CURI Summer 2016
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...
