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M. K. Thompson is a bi-weekly columnist with the Korea Herald. Her columns appear every other Friday and discuss topics related to science, technology, engineering, and education. Past columns are available in the Herald archive and are linked below with permission.


M. K. Thompson "The Swine Flu Blues and Hopes of a Healthier World" Korea Herald, November 20th, 2009 Link
M. K. Thompson "The Many Shortcomings of Standardized Tests" Korea Herald, October 23rd, 2009 Link
M. K. Thompson "Finding Time for Reflection Important" Korea Herald, October 9th, 2009 Link
M. K. Thompson "Teachers' Advice and Writing in the Real World" Korea Herald, September 18th, 2009 Link
M. K. Thompson "Bringing Hacking Back for a Change" Korea Herald, September 4th, 2009 Link
M. K. Thompson "Your Life on Paper - Resume and CV" Korea Herald, August 21st, 2009 Link
M. K. Thompson "Should You Go to Graduate School?" Korea Herald, August 7th, 2009 Link
M. K. Thompson "Where Did All the Hacking Go?" Korea Herald, July 24th, 2009 Link
M. K. Thompson "Ask a Better Question, Get a Better Answer," Korea Herald, July 10th, 2009 Link
M. K. Thompson, "Putting Knowledge Into Perspective" Korea Herald, June 26th, 2009 Link
M. K. Thompson, "How Science Competition Changed My Life Forever" Korea Herald, June 12th, 2009 Link
M. K. Thompson, "What Students Should Do During Summer Vacation" Korea Herald, May 29th, 2009 Link
M. K. Thompson, "Design Means Life, However We Define It" Korea Herald, May 15th, 2009 Link
M. K. Thompson, "Message over Mechanics" Korea Herald, May 1st, 2009 Link
M. K. Thompson, "The Secret to Writing" Korea Herald, April 17th, 2009 Link
M. K. Thompson, "Constructive in Your Criticism" Korea Herald, April 3rd, 2009 Link
M. K. Thompson, "Omniscient We are Not" Korea Herald, March 20th, 2009 Link
M. K. Thompson, "Push vs. Pull Education." Korea Herald, March 6th, 2009 Link
M. K. Thompson, "Taking turns leading, following." Part 2 of 2. Korea Herald, Feb. 6th, 2009 Link
M. K. Thompson, "Leadership demands sacrifice." Part 1 of 2. Korea Herald, Jan 23rd, 2009 Link
M. K. Thompson, "Help others and help yourself." Korea Herald, Jan 9th, 2009 Link
M. K. Thompson, "Making a career 'choice.'" Korea Herald, Dec. 27th, 2008 Link
M. K. Thompson, "Perils of sleep deprivation." Korea Herald, Dec. 13th, 2008 Link
M. K. Thompson, "More teamwork, more science." Korea Herald, Nov. 28th, 2008 Link
M. K. Thompson, "To donate or not to donate." Korea Herald, Nov. 14th, 2008 Link
M. K. Thompson, "The trouble with toothpaste." Korea Herald, Oct. 31st, 2008 Link
M. K. Thompson, "Learning outside the classroom." Korea Herald, Oct 17th, 2008 Link
M. K. Thompson, "Importance of human networks." Korea Herald, Oct 3rd, 2008 Link
M. K. Thompson, "Seduction of the right answer." Korea Herald, Sept 19th, 2008 Link
M. K. Thompson, "Arithmetic of complexity." Korea Herald, Sept. 5th, 2008 Link
M. K. Thompson, "Sum is greater than the parts." Korea Herald August 22nd, 2008 Link
M. K. Thompson, "If at first you don't succeed." Korea Herald, August 11th, 2008 Link
M. K. Thompson, "How full is an engineer's glass?" Korea Herald, July 25th, 2008 Link
M. K. Thompson, "Your toaster will self-destruct in..." Korea Herald, July 11th, 2008 Link
M. K. Thompson, "Creative misuse of daily items." Korea Herald, June 27th, 2008 Link
M. K. Thompson, "Sci-fi the first step to space." Korea Herald, June 13th, 2008 Link
M. K. Thompson, "All the way from MIT to KAIST." Korea Herald, May 30th, 2008. Link



Last updated on 4/18/09