Cool linky stuff for science undergrads (9)

I have a son who's starting his second year as a physics undergrad. As you can imagine, I occasionally pass along a link or two to him pointing to stuff on the web I think he might find particularly interesting or useful. Thinking on that fact, I surmised that perhaps other science students might find those links interesting or useful as well. Hence, this series of posts here on the blog.

By necessity and circumstance, the items I've chosen will be influenced by my son's choice of major and my own interest in the usefulness of computational approaches to science and of social media for outreach and professional development.

• Paul Wells' Perimeter Institute articles from Mclean's and some reactions
  • The making of a child prodigy
  • Perimeter Institute and the crisis in modern physics
  • Perimeter Institute: the bistro at the edge of the universe
  • Perimeter Institute: Jacob’s classmates
  • Neil Turok's welcome speech
  • Perimeter Institute welcome speech reignites the string wars (followup from PhysicsWorld)
  • Perimeter Institute and the crisis in modern physics
  • Neil Turok's crisis in physics is a hallucination (more followup)
• Postdoc Plan B – The elephant in the lab
• Should you write a science blog?
• For Data Scientists, Math Skills Are Not Enough
• How to read and understand a scientific paper (aimed at non-science people but lots of good advice for beginner scientists too)
• I’ve Read 500 Cover Letters for Entry-Level Media Jobs: Here are 12 tips your career counselor hasn’t told you (solid general advice)
• How do students figure out whom to trust in a scientific controversy?
• An Aspiring Scientist’s Frustration with Modern-Day Academia: A Resignation (read Lee Smolin's comment for a counterpoint)

The previous posts in this series are here, here, here, here, here, here and here.

Please feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments.