Alas, science doesn’t glow

It doesn’t make for much of a cover shot, but if one of us ever does manage to change the world, it’ll start with a puzzled glance at a computer screen, or a raised eyebrow while looking at a piece of paper. Instead of getting noisier, everything will get a lot quieter.

That’s from a post by Derek Lowe, an organic chemist, in a plea to PR departments not to use wild colored lights to depict their research labs.

…our instruments do not, regrettably, emit orange glows that light our faces up from beneath, not for the most part, and if they start doing that we generally don’t bend closer…