For fun, here is a list of my favorite podcasts, TV shows, movies, video games, and books I consumed in 2021. Favorite Movies Dune I did not watch many movies in 2021, at least any that I remember liking. I did enjoy watching Dune, and was the only movie I saw in…

Try using the Obsidian App instead — a markdown text editor — Formatting slides in Microsoft’s PowerPoint or Apple’s Keynote presentation software for each lesson or class can take a lot of time to make them look good, and can distract from the main point of teaching — the content. If you are like me, I like my presentations to really stand…

Generate new ideas and stay ahead in your research — Reading the latest articles from journals in your field of study is vital for staying ahead of information that impacts your work, and for generating new research ideas. Today, this is a difficult task with the proliferation of new journals, and an increase in the number of articles released each…

Cite while you write for academic papers — For academics, inserting citations from a popular citation manager, such as Endnote, Mendeley, Readcube, etc., is an integral part of their writing workflow. Researchers use citation managers to save time and the hassle of properly formatting citations that different journals require. The sandbox security of iPadOS, however, has limited the…

I started my academic career in graduate school with the original iMac and have never looked back. Back in those days, Microsoft and Apple were very much a rivalry, and the Microsoft Office suite was unstable and practically unusable. In the acknowledgments of my Master’s thesis, the last line reads: …

Hominin localities on the World Heritage list — Remains of our hominin ancestors and their tools are found throughout the African and Eurasian continents. Researchers have found these Pliocene-to-Pleistocene-age sites along the eroding slopes of ancient rift valleys and in caves. You can visit the landscapes and see the remnants of our ancient ancestors at 11 World Heritage…