Maintaining a laboratory notebook

Tips for undergraduates, but perhaps useful for anyone. Reasons to keep a laboratory notebook To provide yourself with a complete record of why experiments were initiated and how they were performed. You’ll forget if you don’t. Seriously: even in your youth your brain cells are senescing. To give yourself a central, physical place to record your […]

It is not the strongest of the species that survives

This page is for people looking for information about the following quote: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most adaptable to change.” You can find the quotation on the wall of the Charles Darwin Foundation’s gift shop, on the floor of the California Academy […]