• Question: When you find something not discovered yeeet how does that make you feal?

    Asked by lauren98 to Vera, Katie on 21 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Vera Weisbecker

      Vera Weisbecker answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      It’s very very cool! My first impulse is to go back and check the data. It is rare to find something no one has worked out in my field, so I spend days and weeks re-analysing because I really need to be convinced that I’m right. Then I go HOORAY and go off writing a paper about it. I recently found out something cool about the way the mammalian brain evolves, and it got a lot of press coverage. That was great fun and made me feel like I really contributed to human knowledge.

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