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How to Keep a Scientific Notebook
« on: April 23, 2004, 04:51:14 PM »
A great article by George E. Hrabovsky can be found on the subject here: http://www.sas.org/tcs/weeklyIssues/2004-04-23/features1/index.html
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Re:How to Keep a Scientific Notebook
« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2004, 05:08:33 PM »
Good stuff. Maybe me and scratch should actually write some of our stuff down?
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Re:How to Keep a Scientific Notebook
« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2004, 05:15:12 PM »
My brain is the safest place to hold my ideas. I'm afraid I'm paranoid.   :P
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Re:How to Keep a Scientific Notebook
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2004, 05:24:06 PM »
I keep most of my more dangerous ideas in my head, or on www.poosnack.com in the tech forums. I think you might like that place scratch.
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Re:How to Keep a Scientific Notebook
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2004, 05:27:24 PM »
Just the name makes me shudder.  ;D
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« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2004, 05:35:23 PM »
Yeah its a pretty revolting name, but the site has nothing to do with it. My coworker brandon, he works in tech support, runs the thing about 500ft away from me. The name came from some old highschool joke we had running...
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Re: How to Keep a Scientific Notebook
« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2010, 10:42:09 PM »
Here's another good article about how keep a good lab notebook http://www.bookfactory.com/special_info/lab_notebook_guidelines.html Also, a good article about WHY it is a good idea to keep a paper record http://www.bookfactory.com/special_info/eln.html
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