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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Are You the Leader of a Lab?

In theoretical physics, where i do things, when people write papers together, the author list is in alphabetical and ia don't understand that, right? So your name, as the leader of the lab, appears last in the author list. And so this is weird, a reverse, a priority thing, where you're kind of very li orinks, so your name appears lastanker, pulling them downand the first author is usually e person who's done most of the actual, you know, the labor and often the writing. I've actually been doing a few experiments, but not many. It's we should for the listeners out there, not every professor who's a

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