Horizons 114 - Superhero saves science

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Superhero saves science The summers are getting ever drier.

Researchers pay homage to the h-index.*

Save your alp, save the world – by curing science!

The world needs researchers full of Become a imagination. researcher and be their role model!

*The h-index reflects a researcher’s number of publications and citations and is a means of measuring scholarly achievement.

Drawings: David Boller / edited by: Marcel Falk

Superhero is worried about his alp. In a dream, he has a vision of Prof. Darstein …

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6:05 Superhero wakes up …

… and becomes a researcher.

7:25 He reads thousands of papers and reproduces the most important experiments.

9:43...

That could work …

11:52...

Hypothesis confirmed!

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I need solid results. Let’s repeat it 42 more times.

Swiss National Science Foundation – Swiss Academies: Horizons No. 114


15:26 Politics

13:40 Teaching Master and doctoral theses, mentoring – whatever you need, I’ll do it!

16:15 Spin-off

960 new jobs created.

Let’s solve our problems together.

17:15 Dialogue We need everyone’s knowledge.

19:30 Family

21:15... Daddy, I want to fly through 11 dimensions in my dreams.

Come on in and let’s discuss it.

No other researcher is following my example. Why not?


The next day … Researchers! Why are you carrying on as before?

Darstein’s daughter. Huh?

Wake up!

We don’t need super researchers.

Poor Superhero. Did Dad send you?

Some are already researching Everyone’s differently, pooling their together. own unique abilities.

Without any super powers.

Back on the alp …

We are the super researchers.

▸ What kind of scientists and scholars do we really need? Share your opinion at: www.naturalsciences.ch/wescientists


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