On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 22:19 -0800, ron minnich wrote: > This is kind of a fun one: stuff that DID NOT work. I like the basic > idea ...
> “failures” may actually provide clues to even more significant > results than the original experimenter had intended. The research is > useful, even though the results are unexpected. When Mario Salvadori gave his grandmother a copy of his new book, _Why Buildings Stand Up_, she thanked him and said "but I'd much rather know why buildings fall down." That remark was the catalyst for his next book, _Why Buildings Fall Down_.