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About the Site

 

Every researcher has a secret aspiration: to discover something new.

Perhaps a new phenomenon or a new tool. Perhaps a new mechanism or a deeper understanding of some aspect of the world. We all desire to become insightful scientists.

For some, this motivation is driven by a desire to have social impact, for others to become wealthy or famous or simply financially secure. Still others are driven to remedy painful personal experiences or proliferate profoundly joyful ones.

This site is about becoming an insightful scientist, by exploring the process of scientific discovery. It will share strategies, activities, thoughts, and even tools that researchers can use to create an environment ripe for finding something new. The Insightful Scientist website focuses on cultivating the environment every researcher carries with them at any age or career stage, regardless of funding, location, or equipment—the environment of the mind.

While the site draws from evidence-based and anecdotal sources in fields as diverse as physics, psychology, philosophy, sociology, English literature, business, and even history; the purpose of any post or source material on the site is always the same – to identify and share actions that a researcher can take here and now to gain insight and pursue discovery.

Researchers who wander this site will be exposed to a range of skills they can add to their repertoire, insights exchanged with others, and even novel software to help recognize the undiscovered.

Together we will aspire to grow into more insightful scientists.

Because the world always needs a little spark of insight.

And discovery awaits the mind that pursues it…

 

About the Author

 

The author of the website The Insightful Scientist, Dr. Bernadette Kafwimbi Cogswell a.k.a. “The Physicist”, is a researcher in theoretical particle physics and nuclear disarmament.

Her own specialty is neutrino physics, both theoretical and applied, which serves as a test bed for many of the strategies and activities shared on the site.  Alongside her formal training in physics, she also has formal education in psychology and creative writing, both of which she mines for discovery techniques.

Her twin ambitions are to discover a new fundamental principle of physics and to improve the accessibility of advanced research to those with nontraditional backgrounds, interests, and methods.

She believes that science flourishes when both multistream and mainstream approaches are given equal voice and that discovery awaits any mind that pursues it.

 

To contact the author you may visit the “Contact the Author” page.

 

 

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