Today's Nobel Prize winners in economics, chemistry, and physics claimed coffee to play a positive role in their successes, along with intellectual freedom and independent research. Drinking coffee stimulates the nervous system and allows for an alert, focused mind, something imaginative thinkers could not do without. Regardless, it was not the caffeine from the coffee that the Nobel Prize winners were praising, despite the extra hours of work a pot of coffee may have facilitated.
It was the coffee breaks, the communication, the transfer of information from one scientific mind to another, while sharing a cup of coffee or tea together. Reported by NPR, the economics prize winner, Elinor Ostrom says, "Development of good, solid, science requires environments in which you can discuss future ideas, sum up your recent findings..." It is the conversational mood of the coffee break, when people chit chat about their lives, ideas, philosophy, and science, that coffee lovers can benefit from. So instead of pulling out a book, or reading the newspaper, talk and listen to your friend, your partner, or your colleague once in awhile, and find out what discoveries coffee and conversation have to offer.
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What a fabricated angle. You clearly had an angle you wanted to report on, the story didn't fit your angle, but you shoehorned it anyway. Nice job. No wonder why journalism is free nowadays.
I was just thinking how refreshing this article was until I read Brad's comments. I work in a scientific research environment where a lot of the time I don't have time to discuss ideas with co-workers. Yesterday I collaborated with one over coffee and came away with a lot of new ideas as well as felling motivated and energized! Thanks for the reminder Brenna!
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