Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."
-Samuel Beckett
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Do you really want to 'fail better' in science? After years of grad school and postdocing, we become quite good at failing, such that a run-of-the-mill failure usually gets the job done. To fail better than usual can require a years of effort!
Speaking of failure: scratch the 'a' in that final sentence!
How ironic. (Maybe this is an example of postdoc-memory-induced failure.)
Postdocs? I thought this was about the midterm elections.
I guess after the Iraq war and Katrina, the elections were a better failure for the GOP. (According to Google "failure" is the best title for the GOP's leader.)