Cameron,
I'm not sure why that image is a nightmare. In fact, I find inspiring. If you scroll down to the bottom, there is the image of a tiny circle outside the boundary of human knowledge, and it says:
"If you zoom in on the boundary of human knowledge in the direction of genetics, there's something just outside humanity's reach:
Image here
My wife and I chose to start funding these graduate students after we learned that our son has a rare, fatal genetic disorder.
It may be too late for my son, but it's not too late for other children."
That's how it works. And that's why it's important to pick the right questions and know why you're working so hard to answer them. This requires humility, modestly, and a sense of duty to your subject. It's why we should ask questions worth answering. Whether that be on genetics or paper restoration, or sociology of knowledge, or the history of footwear.
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On Jun 6, 2012, at 3:03 PM, cameron tonkinwise wrote:
> To help Eduardo turn his post into a point of discussion,
> consider this visualization of a PhD I recently came
> across via Twitter. If anything draws attention to the
> need for collaborations and travel as part of a PhD
> it is the nightmare that is this imagery:
> http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
>
> Cameron
>
>
> On Jun 6, 2012, at 7:39 AM, Eduardo Corte-Real wrote:
>
>> Dear Friends,
>> As we are with others. As we have been doing since the early 2000's. The worse thing for a doctoral program is to became a cocoon.
>> Eduardo Corte-Real
>> IADE- Lisboa
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