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I used to be a paid scientist (Grad school, research fellowship). Speciality: Physical Chemistry. I also grew up a scientist with a scientist Dad. One of my summer jobs was doing plant tissue cloning work for/with my Dad. This was before scientists could clone animals or animal or human tissue, so it was pretty cutting edge! Anyway, since I’m a geek, I have lots of Opinions and geekeries about science.

Toxic Masculinity, the Real Scoop on What it’s Like to be a Man in it, and Related Thoughts

November 30, 2017May 30, 2018 Malcolm Gin1 Comment on Toxic Masculinity, the Real Scoop on What it’s Like to be a Man in it, and Related ThoughtsFeminism, Politics, Probability

Let me start by laying my cards out and saying why I’m writing this. I was assigned male at birth.…

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Tools

December 16, 2016March 19, 2018 Malcolm GinGeek, Geek-as-a-Trade, Math, Science, Statistics

Just a note: I’d like to thank the freeware program, Lyx, for helping create LaTeX markup for various mathy-sciency things…

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Statistics – This could be you! – Bayesian Conditional Probability and Medical Tests

December 16, 2016June 4, 2018 Malcolm GinGeek, Probability, Science, Statistics

As many of you know, I’m taking, for career change and self improvement, a certified curriculum offered by Columbia University…

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The notability of $latex (82,000)_{10}$

August 13, 2015December 4, 2015 Malcolm GinGeek, Math, Science, Statistics

The title is meant to read , but WordPress’s Jetpack Plugin’s Beautiful Math component doesn’t execute latex markup in the…

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Visual Rhetoric – Some feedback for MSNBC

June 6, 2015 Malcolm GinGeek, Science, Statistics, Visual Rhetoric

Over the years, MSNBC has been using and reusing a particular visual rhetorical style for presenting job growth numbers since…

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Measuring and Calibration – Science Geek Series

May 10, 2015 Malcolm GinGeek, Kitchen, Measurement, Science, Statistics

A lot of bakers and chefs and chemists will tell you that they’re in the same business. So, in a…

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