whats the best thing you discovered in your job

Question: whats the best thing you discovered in your job
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Asked by Bee to Aileen, Caroline, Christopher, Rehemat, Stephanie, Stephen on 5 Mar 2018.
- Stephen Twomlow answered on 5 Mar 2018:
  
  How to ask a question and then listen very carefully to the answer to understand the problems faced by African Farmers, then we can use science to try and come up with answers – key questions are What, Why, When, Where, Who and How
- Aileen Baird answered on 5 Mar 2018:
  
  I have not been in my current job for very long so I don’t actually have any results yet from my current experiments. Ask me again in a year!
- Stephanie Mann answered on 5 Mar 2018:
  
  The great thing about science is that so often we build on what other people have already done. So in that sense I’ve not “discovered” anything yet like some of the more famous scientists. One thing I have done which was new was I made a computer program that works out how much energy can be produced by flying wind turbines, that wasn’t a discovery but allows people to discover new things about their technology!
- Rehemat Bhatia answered on 5 Mar 2018:
  
  Hmm tough one! I think my favourite thing I’ve discovered is we can detect very small chemical variations in plankton shells from millions of years ago. Because they are so old (~ 20-50 million years old) I found it very cool that these were still left to detect in the shells!
- Christopher Nankervis answered on 5 Mar 2018:
  
  I’ve never really had a Eureka moment, I’ve discovered a lots from experiments!
  The best thing that I have discovered is how to better forecast the weather using statistics. Though I think that building on existing knowledge is always best for successful discoveries, so called ‘Standing on the Shoulders of Giants’.
- Caroline Hickman answered on 5 Mar 2018:
  
  Great question
  
  I think it would have to be a couple of things:
  
  1) I didn’t discover this – Freud did, but when I learnt about the effects of the unconscious mind it changed the way I saw the world. We think we are completely aware of things, but in fact we are only 5% conscious (aware) and 95% unconscious (not so aware). If you have watched the film ‘Inside Out’ you can see the unconscious and how big it is.
  
  2) the think I discovered was the power of working with nature and the natural world as therapy for people, from cats helping people recover from trauma, to dogs helping children to learn in schools or helping people with alzheimers, to pictures of trees helping people recover from surgery more quickly, to people with cats getting less colds (seriously).

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