JunQ: Science magazine for scientific failures
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Nobody is perfect! Also important and renowned scientists fail from time to time. Above all, they are also questions whose relevance is questionable. Anything that would actually be rather landed in a scientific paper basket, lands now in JunQ.
JunQ is the new, slightly different science magazine. JunQ stands for “Journal of unsolved questions”. JunQ is true in English, but the initiators and leaders sit at the Universities of Mainz, Tübingen and Prague.
What questions are still unresolved?
The reader will wonder in this context, first of all, because what they were for questions to be considered as unresolved. At the point is not entirely clear whether the men and women scientists are really serious about her journal.
Deceive female bonobo monkeys before her orgasm?
Thus, for example, Wolter Karolina Seuntjes and Hansen from the Universities of Amsterdam and Jena, the question of whether female bonobo apes her orgasm only vortäuschen.Oder why some languages do not distinguish between the colors blue and green.
The Mission Statement
The makers of juvenile explain this in their “mission statement” that they go about to publish the scientific work that had not, a negative or undesirable outcome. So they wanted to ensure that the Science is less manipulated, above all, they want to create a platform for scientists by scientists, the other from his own or the failure learn can and want. It’s all about transparency.
Learn from mistakes?
The idea is new and the idea is good! Why should not also extremely smart people learn from their own or from the mistakes of other extremely smart people? If scientists, as it is usual to present, only its successes, may fall many important ideas, inventions and discoveries under the table, simply because of a lost patience and thrown in the trash can has his work.
Platform for failures
If it now but there is a platform where scientists without fear even their failures can post and may, then chances are good that someone else smarter head a major inspiration or idea and made it all but still a success or a scientific discovery is.
But also for scientific laymen JunQ is an interesting thing. First, they can see what for some absurd questions so every day is a scientist and, secondly, that even the Einsteins of this world have stupid ideas, and sometimes even fail completely.
