As I am leaving from a conference, I check out from the hotel, and the receptionist asks me: “How was your stay?” I replied: “It was good”, Right away she asked me: “Good? What went wrong?” Now, here is what crossed my mind: Good should be positive, good excludes wrong. Later, I tried to describe what a good scientist's work looks like: accurately researching, … [Read more...]

How many friends do you have?  The answer is clearly dependent on how we define friends. But still, in your own definition of a friend, how many would you include on that list? If we look up any social media platform, many of us have plenty of connections.  So… how much of our social network is based on friendship? North American culture does not have many words to … [Read more...]