At the age of 26, when I returned to New York after an inglorious stab at graduate work in medieval history on the frozen steppes of Chicago, I had a horrifying realization: I was illiterate.
Much attention is being paid to partial discharge measurement to ensure high reliability of GIS. Thus the study of partial discharge in GIS is of very high practical and research value.
The researchers think that their biotic games could be educational to help people learn about biology, and they also think that such a forum could serve as a place to conduct real experiments.
There's always a constant fear of falling behind everyone else on the socially perpetuated "race to the finish line", whether that be toward graduate school, medical school or a lucrative career.
Language has been enriched with such terms as "highbrow", "egghead", "blue-stocking", "wiseacre", "know-all", "boffin" and, for many, "intellectual" is a term of denigration.