You go to the gym and work out and get uncomfortable. You feel sore, you ache, you sweat. And pretty much everyone understands the benefit of that discomfort. And yet people are so unwilling to do the same for their intellect.

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To the great amusement of the arrivals level Tim Hortons, I used my Air Canada meal vouchers to buy 48 medium coffees for the next people in line.

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FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

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Do you think that the canonical cortical circuit is complicated? It's so much worse than that! Overlayed on top of the wired connectome, there are *18* different signal-carrying peptides in cortex! Their range is ~similar to the size of a cortical column elifesciences.org/articles/47889 1/

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A tomahawk missile costs the taxpayers the same amount of money as one five-year major NIH research grant. Remember that every time they tell us one of those missed the target, blew up paintings of enemy aircraft or tanks, or was the fifth and unnecessary hit on the same target.

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