Anjali Gopal is a PhD student in the joint Bioengineering program at UC Berkeley and UCSF. You can follow her on Twitter at @anjali_gopal. Procrastination is inevitable in graduate school. It’s true: ...

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In the 1980s, Francesco Cirillo came up with the technique. Using a tomato-shaped kitchen timer, he'd study for 25 minutes ...

A few years ago, I had built myself a 5 minute timer to help me with my Ingress efforts, I never got around to turning this project into an Android customization piece, but since it works great for ...