A prominent scientist once asked me what I thought made for a good story. I listed a bunch of things--significant, interesting, new info, conflict, characters, narrative, surprise. He said I was missing a key thing that drove scientists: curiosity. Here's to that: www.science.org/content/arti...

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As I was taught as a graduate student 40 years ago by Gerd Jürgens: “If you can’t convince them, confuse them. And if you are short of data, use color.” (color 1986 = fancy graphics & figures with dozens of panels 2026)

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2/2 Would it be OK if my review read: sorry, but my time is too valuable to dig through 130 pages of rebuttal. I can not recommend publication of a paper by authors who clearly have zero respect for the reviewers’ hard work.

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I was expecting a large Redragon curved monitor but instead I received a very large hissing lizard. It refuses to be connected with either Displayport or HDMI but it sure makes for a very lively gaming experience.

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Apparently the Tucson zoo was expecting a FedEx shipment of a Komodo dragon yesterday, and FedEx lost the Komodo dragon

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