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Scientists' Success Or Failure Correlated With Beer
mernil sends in an article from the NYTimes that casts a glance at a study done in the Czech Republic (natch) on what divides the successful scientists from the duffers. "Ever since there have been scientists, there have been those who are wildly successful, publishing one well-received paper after another, and those who are not. And since nearly the same time, there have been scholars arguing over what makes the difference. What is it that turns one scientist into more of a Darwin and another into more of a dud? After years of argument over the roles of factors like genius, sex, and dumb luck, a new study shows that something entirely unexpected and considerably sudsier may be at play in determining the success or failure of scientists — beer."
Scientists' Success Or Failure Correlated With Beer
Oddly enough, that finding carries over to Hookers, as well.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
I've never published any peer reviewed papers, and I drink plenty of beer, so it must be true [burp].
I really ought to read TFA more often. The reserve turns out to be true, didn't see that one coming..
The reserve turns out to be true
Enjoying a little beer tonight, are we?
In Czech republic, beer is not a drink of lower classes at all. It is a national drink consumed by almost everyone, people from all classes, from the poor to the country's president. However, wine is popular in the southeast part of the country (Moravia), because it is a traditional wine region. May be, Moravians are mor intelligent than people from the other parts of the country? :) I do not know. But certainly they have more beautiful girls there :) May be more sex means better science :D
SHE does throw dice.
In order to find out if beer is good or bad for scientists, I have to read the article?
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I'll drink to that.
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I like microwave pizza. Does that make me stupid?
I prefer not to answer that because it is well known that people like you are prone to violence due to your stunted intellect.
Could you elaborate (in under 100 words, mind you) what kind of correlation you might have found between good music and Aerosmith? Or was that just a non sequitur for rhetoric effect?
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