Programming EQ

5 Monkeys were placed in a closed room, with a ladder leading up to a bunch of bananas. The most curious (or hungriest) monkey would cautiously start climbing up. After crossing a threshold on the ladder, a shower of ice-cold water would drench them. This would deter the first monkey, more startled at the sudden rain; jumping off the ladder and retreating to the corners like everyone else. After overcoming the initial shock, someone would try again; like the last time, ice-cold water is sprayed, everyone rushes to the corners. At the third attempt, the remaining four monkeys would stop the daredevil and beat him up. At this point the beaten up monkey is removed, the sprinklers shut down, and a new monkey introduced into the room. The new guy walks in, looks at the drenched monkeys, the ladder and BANANAS, and heads towards the ladder not believing that the others are so stupid to let the free lunch pass. As he reaches the ladder, his fate is similar to the one before him, beaten

Storytime My first encounter with the word “culture” was in my mom's workspace, a microbiology lab. She used "culture" to describe a collection of Petri-dishes; each had a different solution with the same food sample placed in it. She would then place it in a fridge (it was like a fridge, to control the temperature) and wait to see what happens after an allotted amount of time, after which the results were noted. The point of this experiment was to see the presence of certain bacteria, fungi, etc. Depending on the solution one kind of micro-organism would thrive while others starve. The growth patterns within each Petri-dish was different, indicating a particular micro-organism within the sample. Alternative tale I came across a similar experiment in "Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life" by Dave Asprey. He was describing Dr. Bruce Lipton’s research on stem cells, he used the exact same stem cells in different environm