Today I will talk about how to do science or rather how not to do it.
To all the people who DO NOT make a living surrounded by tubes and perhaps pipettes not interested in anything, anything you say so then you can take a break to look at and do not continue reading but as you discover something interesting or scary who knows? about us.
Does Science as a well oiled gear?
Here we go. Not what is your experience in regard to the organization, if you consider yourself sorted in general or if you are of those who take longer than half an hour to find the keys when leaving home, and you can also think that something so, so banal little or nothing to do with something as serious and important as doing science but I hope that at the end of this article veais why I think the disorder is a vice so disastrous for the progress of the investigation.
Disordered ... yes, how crazy? ... Not always
The old cliché suggests the idea that the scientist is someone confused, forgetful and unlikely to have or bring order to their surroundings. Topicazo Another Hollywood? From my personal experience and from what I have seen around me is an uncomfortable reality, but certainly not widespread real. Laboratory notebooks with illegible notes, files or data formats with notations incomprehensible even for those who created them, covering samples of ice in the freezer since the last century, often without identification and no one dares to shoot because maybe its rightful owner does know what they mean and find them again someday (that, if the rightful owner is still in the continent / hemisphere).
In matters of technical equipment and not speak: the instructions stored in a drawer since the day it was installed, the maintenance and cleaning has to deal with someone, it is assumed, but never just be clear who. Collect and organize or clean laboratory benches is an annual task, and the arrival of the Magi but in reverse (because more to look forward at least he gives is lazy) and then also tend to appear seamless to identify gift .
Fortunately, some labs are trying to remedy this situation by organizing shifts for cleaning for example, or by assigning responsibility for equipment and also some people it is intended that at least there is a centralized database of both protocols such as media and reagents among others.
not run much faster progress is made (if not to be told the hare of Aesop's fable ) and in this case even worse because the result of the lack of method is that the end may occur, for example, that one has to repeat experiments because it recalls the order samples and controls, or lack of planning control experiment did not include that essential for the experiment is round (and credible results.) Also, do not forget that some experiments require long, long time (months even) and a repeat is not a joke.
In theory it should be easier to follow some minimum rules of conduct to avoid both loss of control, especially since is but an obstacle to it that all bosses expect: efficiency and productivity, what happens is that doing science, carrying out the experiments that produced these results deserve the Nobel prize at least absorbs so many resources, leaving little time (or win) available to archive, organize, catalog, planning ...
why February is my intention to try to bring some order to my new (and highest to date) Realm of Chaos. And for those who enjoy irony as much as I tell them that my lab is the typical example where the equation + Germany = efficient organization is not satisfied. How cool is that topics not being met?
Note: I could not resist to put the video game based on the Saint Seiya, memories of childhood, blame my amygdala (the brain)
this summer on the occasion of another such strikes ¨ ¨ no drivers, I was lying on Barajas for four hours and also not change I was able to talk to a stranger who decided to share with me their angst: his ex-wife (Cuban) had cast a spell on your 2 years and therefore now he wanted to see him. And we know that the fire must be attacked with fire so without thinking twice engaged the services of a Haitian shaman to reverse the effects of evil eye. You can imagine that during the period of the history I had my eyes wide open, how to believe that a European businessman closer to 50 than the 20 you really believe in these boobs? Of course, my attempts to see that maybe the fact that a little boy who lives alone with the family of the mother and who only visit a few times a year is easily influenced are unacceptable and illogical arguments. The reality is that the child is cursed.
Why do people choose to believe in witchcraft, homeopathy or extraterrestrial encounters even when all physical evidence and rational defy those beliefs? The answer lies in a psychological phenomenon called cognitive dissonance .
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The phenomenon was first proposed time by the psychologist Leon Festinger in 1954, after following the case of a housewife Marion Keech (fictitious name of course, is to protect the identity of lunatics) who started a cult after claiming aliens aliens receiving messages claiming the advent of World's End (does anyone know how many times has happened to the world in the last 20 years?). The spokesman of the planet Clarion, Sananda, Marion informed that the date of the end of the world via Flood was the midnight of December 20, 1954. So interested in what would happen the day when H D when the world did not end and no space ark came to save Festinger chosen this group. At night the most important day in the history of humanity all the faithful gathered in Keech's house to wait for instructions from ET and company. When the clock struck 12.01 The people became restless, five minutes later, some began to mourn, "the aliens had forgotten to pick them up?. But then Keech · I received ¨ a new message explaining that God (now not only is there a God exraterrestes!) Had changed his mind when he saw that ¨ this small group had caused so much light ... Not since the beginning of time There was a force of goodness and light as that filled the room ... ¨
In short, it was his faith that saved them. Even faced with the fact that his prophecy had proved to be false changed their beliefs. Indeed, from that moment even more convinced of the existence of aliens and spread the cult. The reaction to the dissonance of being wrong will be made even more convinced they were right.
why all the evidence I could show that father that his son was just being influenced by their environment against ever convince him that it is not black magic.
may seem an isolated phenomenon is actually quite common. Experiments with Republican and Democratic voters showed that even faced with the same information, assessment of it depended on their prior beliefs and not only that came to change the information to suit their beliefs. For example, if the democratic government is supposed to increase government spending even if the Clinton period statistics showed the opposite of the Republicans who have always wondered responded that spending was exorbitant, and this irrespective of the level of political information the respondent. (More information in the book How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer )
Even in science, how much it costs to banish old dogmas times! (And why in science if something should not exist are dogmas). Hypotheses that go against established theories for decades have it really hard to pass the filter of publication and symposia and scientific presentations, sometimes, it's incredible what it costs them some support information / comments against their hypotheses ... unless they really go for! Blessed cognitive dissonance.
"Be a balm if your time snake pools became and sweetness if others have become bitter * " (NOTE: Any argument of my translation from Arabic is always welcome) Tuerk (
علقم ) * The Tuerk or Colocynthis Citrullus is a creeping plant with stems and rough hair that clings with tendrils. The leaves are palmately lobed, alternate with long petioles. The flowers are solitary, are yellow and stem, have a bell-shaped corolla. The fruit is a berry as large as an apple green or orange with bitter pulp containing numerous seeds . When the pulp of ripe fruit is dried to form a powder that will be used as a purgative, bitter medicine. This dust is so combustible that the Arabs collected for use as firewood. The fruit is used to repel moths wool. after removal of its poisonous flesh Emille s is usually eaten in the regions of Central Sahara
Castilian Synonyms: Alcamo, Alcom, alhandal, alhondal, wild gourds, colocíntida, bitter apple, bitter apple , bitter apple (fruit), gall of the earth, the nut, bitter apple, nuts yellow tuera officinal tuera striped Adam tuera
_ Abd Al-Halim Hafez: "The nightingale Brown, voice of Egypt "_
Abd Al-Halim Shabna
(
عبدالحليم إسماعيل شبانة
), better known under the name of Abd Al-Halim Hafez and nicknamed "Tan Nightingale" ( العندليب الأسمر ) was born in 1929 in the town of El Halawat, near Cairo. already in primary school the child draws the attention of her music teacher, Mahmoud Hanafi, who sees in it the seed an artist, and encourages him to continue in this direction. In 1940, Abd Al-Halim , who was then eleven years old and already an orphan, goes to the Cairo accompanying his brother would end up being the director of the National School of Music in Cairo. E n 1946 he graduated as an oboe student and meet Ettaouil Kamal, one of the contributors, along with Mohamed Mougy would be a fundamental pillar for the launching of young Hafez as a major figure of the song. In 1952 and with his friend, composer Ettaouil Kamal (who was then responsible for radio programming Egyptian) is incorporated into the country's broadcasting services. Only then will occur one of the most important meetings in the history of Egyptian music: Abd Al-Halim knows the great composer, singer and lutenist Muhammad Abd Al-Wahab ( محمد عبد الوهاب
) and start a musical collaboration indestructible. As usual singer nightclubs of Cairo, fate leads him to rush to replace Mahmoud Karem (
كارممحمود ), singer and lute player, famous for popular topics like " سمرةياسمر " ( Morena, morena oh!) Who was to present the live radio program and honor the first anniversary the revolution of 1952. Al-Halim Ab then successfully interprets a composition of one of his eternal companions, Kamal Ettaouil .
"The Tan Nightingale" , one of the large was born to rub shoulders, and finally with great figures of the Egyptian scene as Abd Al-Wahab, Umm Kulthum or Farid Al-Atrash . Thus, a highly successful film career and a full recognition on the part of the population, and not Egyptian, but the entire Arab world would be supplemented by some inroads as an actor and leading man in over fifteen productions films. Poster film "Adham al-Sharkawi" (1964)
Abd Al-Halim died on March 30, 1977 at the age of 48 years while undergoing treatment for Bilharzia in King's College Hospital London and his funeral in Cairo, where he would eventually be buried in the Al Rifa'i Cairo, attended by two million people (more than any funeral in Egyptian history except President Nasser in 1970 and Umm Kulthum in 1975).
His discography is huge so I encourage the respectable looking, either in the form of tape, vinyl or cd any of its splendid concerts. You will find pieces of some length, pieces of over fifty minutes and orchestral dressing well worth the enjoyment for any gourmet lover of Arabic music and, by extension, good music. I dare suggest that you seek the work
(Message from under the water) and some recordings (several) of the issue before I offer " قارئة الفنجان
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(Qariat Feng), both parts are composed of works by the great Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani and summarize all that, little by little and introduciéndoos a little more in the works of Abd Al-Halim , find a prodigious and sublime. __ قارئة الفنجان
(the seer) ___
(Abd Al-Halim Hafez عبدالحليم حافظ
/ Nizar Qabbani نزار قباني ) " She sat with fear in their eyes watching the cup height
said: "Grieve not, my son are destined to fall in love " My son, who sacrifices himself for his beloved, is martyr. " I have long studied divination but I've never read a cup similar to yours. I have long studied divination but I've never seen a sentence similar to yours.
're doomed to sail forever to be indigent, the sea of \u200b\u200blove, your life forever is intended to be a book of tears and be imprisoned between water and fire.
But despite all your pains, despite the sadness who is with us day and night
despite the wind rainy weather and cyclone This is love, my son, this is always the best destinations. Hay una mujer en tu vida, hijo mío sus ojos son tan hermosos Gloria a Dios!
Su boca y su risa están llenos de rosas y melodías y su gitano y loco amor por la vida viaja por el mundo. La mujer que amas puede ser tu mundo entero but your sky will fill with rain your way blocked, locked, my son Your beloved, my child is sleeping in a palace guarded who comes to your garden wall who enters your room and the proposed or try to join their braids will cause your loss, my son ... lost. The search everywhere, my son ask for it to waves ask the shores of the seas
will travel to the oceans and your tears flow like a river And at the end of your life find that from your beloved has no land, no home, no direction, 've been looking for just a trail of smoke. How difficult it is, my son love a woman who have no land, no home! " قارئة الفنجان
جلست And fear eyes contemplate two cups of inverted said Hey, I love Do not be sad You need is written
had died a martyr who died for the redemption of loved enlightened and caused a lot but I have never read cup jasper E Vngank enlightened and caused a lot but I did not know Ohz I like your sorrows Mekdurk That never go in the Sea of \u200b\u200bLove without Gulwa and be your life longevity Book tears You could remain imprisoned between water and fire Despite the Sadness dwells in us day and night and despite the wind and the atmosphere despite the rainy and typhoon will love sweeter predestination your life woman Sobhan Idol mouth decree Kancod laugh tones, flowers and hair gypsy Crazy t stir in the whole world rainy but your heaven and your way blocked de Habiba Sleeping in the palace of your heart is made to enter the chamber of the request of her approaching her garden wall who tried to break braids missing will search them Everywhere and you will be asked by the sea waves ask Fairuz Coasts and roam the seas and rivers overflowing with tears and sadness will grow to become trees and will return one day subdued broken conscience and you will know after the departure of Age Sitd haunt you smoke de Habiba your heart does not have land or a title and I have . . .