Matt Damon, in all his squat retroussé-nosed handsomeness, plays Mark Watney, a Nasa astronaut who in some future time of viable human spaceflight exploration is part of a team undertaking dull scientific research into the red dust and red rocks on Mars, earnestly decanting them into little plastic pots and exchanging good-natured walkie-talkie badinage with his team.
Regret bitterly having promised to help Frederick with his book, particularly as I am doing the dullest part, research and typing.
My own inclination is to continue to go there if I can, to find points on the map and take those dull, dull photographs, because the research is often as much about reassuring the author as convincing the reader.
Finding that first-year students also assumed, precourse, that scientists were antisocial and that research careers were dull suggests that students finish high school and enter college with negative preconceptions about research/researchers. Multiple years of college science education apparently do little to change these ideas.
Their research gave the former dull bulges a traumatic past and an "exciting, baffling mutability".
The problem, though, is that some fear that funding research into geoengineering techniques could dull enthusiasm for cutting emissions.
Our research says they see politicians as dull people more interested in careers than constituents.
Instead of slogging through dull daily management tasks, they spend more time on research and collaboration," said founder Jonathan Gross.
Osteoarthritis was once viewed as a dull disease caused by wear and tear and unworthy of research interest.
New research seems to indicate that smoking weed can dull reward systems over time, slowing the roll of a critical feedback loop.
