I don’t want to hear your elevator pitch

… but I’d love to talk science with you for hours, on the shores of Sakhalin or in the bars of Beirut, or in the nearest available seminar room. This is a short armchair-philosophical elegy to slow science. [The background is Olga Rozanova s 1914 Cityscape” photoshopped for the worse.] In all forms of communication, discovery, [ ]