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Sci is at Neurotic Physiology today with a plea. A plea to new grad students, to new postdocs, to new undergrads. A plea to WRITE IT DOWN. All of it. Because I don't believe you have a photographic memory. Fellow scientists, don't you all wish they would just write it down? Head over and check it out.