The incoherent ponderer has interesting advice on efficiency in research
Take note.
"All of this pondering seems to confirm my earlier thinking that ambition, "killer instinct" and honest self-assessment skills are often more important than being smart or even hard working."
It doesn't hurt to be hard working, and it may be useful to be smart also.
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Krugman ponders lack of leadership and consensus at G7 meeting
In 1817, Karl August Weinhold had a go at a real-life Frankenstein's monster -- only in his version he uses a cat. The German scooped out the brain and spinal cord of a recently dead cat. He then pured a molten mixture of zinc and silver into the skull and spinal cavity.
"At least once a week, if not once a day, we might each ponder what cosmic truths lie undiscovered before us, perhaps awaiting the arrival of a clever thinker, an ingenious experiment, or an innovative space mission to reveal them.