I have an undergrad working with me, and I’ve been slowly teaching him the rules of science. So far, we have experienced the following rules in action together:
1. Nothing works on the first try.
2. Everything breaks at least once.
3. Every way it can break it will break.
And today, we learned a new one:
4. Sometimes after [...]
The rules of Science
June 10th, 2009 No Comments
Beer is bad for science
September 24th, 2008 1 Comment
Apparently, beer is bad for science. This is devastating:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/science/18beer.html
A study done in the Czech Republic found a very strong negative correlation between the number of beers consumed by a scientist and the number of papers the scientist published/citations of their work. However, the reason for this correlation wasn’t given, so it could just mean that [...]