I’m currently doing my PhD in the lab where I also completed a Master’s thesis. A Master’s project is generally short and succinct so that a student, an inexperienced researcher, can do the project and write it up all within 6 months to hopefully less than a year. Sometimes the […]
Monthly Archives: October 2019
Imagine you have to cross the Niagara Falls on an unsteady high wire. You may ask yourself ‘why?’ or ‘what do I get from it?’, but instead ignore those questions and just do it. You feel your legs getting shaky, your hands getting sweaty and your heart beating louder than […]
Friday the 13th of September: It was early in the evening. Where most of the traffic was moving out of the Leibniz institute… there was a smaller stream of inward bound bodies. These were the so described “enthusiastic neuroscientists with a little extra time” (underlined because, lets face it, finding […]
A life full of questions…every day we ask questions and we answer to others. This is how we learn, communicate, evolve and live. Have you ever counted the question marks in a day (here, another one)? The questions have some weights. Sometimes they are trivial or rhetorical but eventually, they […]
There is a slowly growing push from politics into anti-intellectualism. That is – that the instincts of the political leaders are more correct in a given field of science than the experts who spent their lives in ivory towers to understand their field. Distrust of science is starting to have […]
Science/Fiction is a regular column that looks at error made by books, films and others whenever they include some science in their plot. Ladies and gentlemen, scientists are great people. I come across scientists every day, I met scientists from all over the world and all horizons, so I think […]