> > Both this summer and last, I worked in a research lab. The lab is headed by a Nobel laureate. I don't know how much it changed him, but I don't think the average person on the street knows who he is. (Well? Can you name any Nobel laureates in the sciences? Even plenty of scientists couldn't name most of the recent ones.)

I know I'm just recycling somebody else's insights and humour with this link in reply to the above, but it's so relevant and so funny I couldn't resist.

Brunnen-"oh, to live in a world like this"G