FORTNIGHT JOURNAL :: Documenting the Promise of the Millennial Generation

Duly Noted

For my final contribution to Fortnight, I would like to bring you as close to my work as possible by showing you excerpts from my scientific notebook in many stages of the experimental process and data acquisition.

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Besides detailing the rote sequence of experimental events, the scientist’s notebook is a place to develop thoughts, ideas, and questions while seeking scientific truths. Science is a dynamic process; therefore, hypotheses can change swiftly and a record of this progress is critical.

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Notes assure that exact procedures can be readily called upon and repeated (or disputed) with ease by current or future fellow researchers.

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My laboratory notebooks throughout the years read like a patchwork quilt of information: Studies that have failed, studies that have been completed and the data to support them, and problems that have been overcome, all back-to-back.

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This human record is part of the legacy I am leaving to future researchers who take my position next.

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FORTNIGHT IS

A MULTIMEDIA DOCUMENTARY PROJECT ON THE MILLENNIAL GENERATION: THE LAST GENERATION TO REMEMBER A TIME WITHOUT THE INTERNET.