Quote of the day and much more...

* Did you ever heard about Lee Cronin? You should, very soon. His idea is revolutionary, even if seems to be far fetched, but he is working at it and already got results. Lee Cronin's lab at the University of Glasgow does cutting-edge research into how complex chemical systems, created from non-biological building blocks, can have real-world applications with wide impact. At TEDGlobal 2012, Cronin shared some of the lab's latest work: creating a 3D printer for molecules. This device -- which has been prototyped -- can download plans for molecules and print them, in the same way that a 3D printer creates objects. In the future, Cronin says this technology could potentially be used to print medicine -- cheaply and wherever it is needed. As Cronin says: "What Apple did for music, I'd like to do for the discovery and distribution of prescription drugs."
Lee Cronin TED talk here.

** One interesting quote of the day coming from the creator of "Dilbert" - Scott Adams.
"Always fail in the way that will put you ahead instead of failing in a way that put you behind." What that means? Means that we can always learn through each of our failures if we fail researching way to improve ourselves, instead of just trying aimlessly just for the sake of.

*** One short story to make us thinking and question everything that we do automatically through our daily routine. It is the story of the five monkey, and what i want to talk about it is a experiment done 32 years ago. Five monkey were sitting together in a cage, and one basket of bananas was hanging in the middle of the room. They also had a pair of stairs, but here it is the trick, every monkey who tried to use the stairs triggered a mechanism that start to splash very cold water on all five monkeys. After one week, one of the monkey was taken out and a new one came instead. Obviously, the new one will try to get the bananas from the basket, but the other four will stop it. And so on every week, until no monkey from the first lot remained in the cage. Every week the new one was stopped to get the bananas, long after the cold water was used, and no water splash was used on the new ones, but because of what they were learning every newcomer to the cage, no monkey dared to use the stairs to get bananas from the basket. In some way, each of us accepted something just because it was told. What i want you to do this week is to question everything, and find if it is really like this or you just accepted what you were told by others. Good luck.

****  I will finish with some very interesting article about lunch pack served at school around the world. It is amazing what they eat in some countries. "Me like it" to quote Hulk. Go and see it with your eyes.
Link here.