Shower Think Tanks

[marcusmarcusrc]

As happens every so often, I had an idea in the shower and was forced to run to my computer wrapped in a towel and still dripping. I remember a professor once telling me that a true scientist "lives, eats, and breathes their science, it is with them when they fall asleep, when they wake up, and in the shower". While I have no desire to be that obsessed with my work, I do find that showers are good thinking time, and clearly this is not unique to me... why, it goes all the way back to Archimedes, at the very least.

Taking this thought to its logical conclusion, there should be think tanks with massive banks of high-tech showers installed with waterproof computers or voice dictation devices, where employees are encouraged to take several showers a day to stimulate the brain. Good hygiene would just be a plus. Wrinkly fingers a minus.

Comments

[medyani.livejournal.com]

Waste of water. (well, you expected me to say that, didn't you?)

Now what about something that simulated the experience of a shower? Like I'll bet that if you could do one of those- what are they?-- MRI thingees (!) to the brain while someone is showering (someone like you who experiences "break throughs" during the bathing ritual) that there are measurable brain changes (remember: me no scientist; me storyteller). Then you come up with something (something that's energy/resource efficient!) that simulates the experience. There are other rituals that people use to engender break throughs -- exercise, substances . . . -- and I also wonder if they stimulate similar -- what, patterns? -- in the brain.