research schedule is like a split-brain

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An example of a simile from a science concept in popular science writing:

"…I have run a kind of split-brain laboratory, spending summers in the field looking for fossils and working the rest of the year with embryos and DNA."

Neil Shubin

Shubin, N. (2020). Some Assembly Required. Decoding four billion years of life, from ancient fossils to DNA. Oneworld Publications.

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.