Molecular Cell - Stress in Biomedical Research: Six Impossible Things
The point here is that science [which is impossible], and this form of science that I and presumably you do, biomedical research (which I suppose is impossible squared), is unbelievably frustrating. And, as a consequence, stressful. … My mandate here is to identify the sources of stress in our scientific lives and to suggest ways to deal with them. … Each one is impossible (by which I mean “very, very difficult”), but even the attempt seems to help, and I’ve divided these into six impossible things. I am not sure that it is really six things, but the number was chosen because the White Queen asserted that with practice she regularly believes six impossible things before breakfast. Me, I’m still practicing.
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