Sometimes science can be painfully slow. Data comes in dribs and drabs, truth trickles, and veracity proves viscous.

The world’s longest-running lab experiment is an ongoing work in sheer scientific patience. It has been running continuously for nearly a century, under the close supervision of several custodians and many spectators – and it’s ever so slowly drip, drip, dripping away… More here.

I read about this experiment years ago and completely forgot about it. It’s amazing how much patience must be needed and the mind bending needed by us non-scientific folk to understand what the benefits of this experiment could be, but it’s kind of cool anyway.

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