Cognitive Surplus A Prayer for Grant Funding Cocktail Candle* Candles | Physics

You’ve filled out stacks and stacks of paperwork, you’ve submitted more proposals than you can count. You’ve stayed up into the wee hours of the morning to just revise your submission one last time before the deadline. And you haven’t heard anything back. Research takes money. All scientists know that waiting for funding is the pits. In the meantime, go ahead and light this Prayer for Grant Funding Cocktail Candle and add some good juju to your proposal. What else have you got to lose, right? If it’s a no-go, then bottoms up!