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The truth about credits
There’s one thing that is more thrilling for a scientist than his thrilling experiment’s results themselves.
It’s the author’s ranking on the resulting publication. This ranking always gives pain, being the reason for hassle and hatred between former colleagues and close collaboration partners.
Of course, the most important position on a scientific paper is the first one. […]
DNA damaged by sports?
Does anybody fancy sports? No? That’s no surprise at all. Nearly daily doping disclosures cast a damning light on high performance activities and their morbid background. Well, it seems that taking part in the Tour de France is unthinkable without bringing along suitcases full of EPO, hGH and Insulin. Actually, most of our healthy and […]
Mad Scientists and their Life Forms
You consider yourself an unorthodox, free-thinking mind? Well, I am afraid you missed a crucial deadline: a definitely weird but also inspiring competition has found its winners without you.
I refer to the world’s first “mad science contest” (themed “Build a Life Form and We’ll Send You to Hong Kong”). Searching for “biology to be brazen”, […]
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Ooooh that smell …!
“Whiskey bottles, and brand new cars
Oak tree you’re in my way
There’s too much coke and too much smoke
Look what’s going on inside you
Ooooh that smell
Can’t you smell that smell
Ooooh that smell
The smell of death surrounds you”
(“That Smell” by US rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, released in 1977 – a song about Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington who […]
Be a record holder (and a Nobel Price winner, too)!
How’s work going? For my share, experiments have been going awry for weeks (and still are) while my demanding lab taskmaster is becoming more and more bad-tempered (and so am I!).
Tons of failed experiments in mind, my research grant running out at lightning-speed and the next sensational blockbuster paper out of reach, I brainstormed about […]
