Frustrated that your experiment has failed? Angry that you had to waste your weekend on a failed case? Now, no need to break your real flask or beaker. Just log on to Facebook and play Lab Smash!! Relieve yourself!!
As a researcher myself, i feel angry if one or the other reaction fails. While separating stereoisomers through the strenuous column chromatography, if i get a mixture, i feel like breaking the column into thousands pieces!! Well, I bet if you are a researcher or a student, you are facing a similar problem.
Just Imagine, out of enthusiasm for your work you have refused a date for the weekend, and just when you have started working you see that the reaction which you set up, has failed!! The reaction which you have been performing since ages, suddenly goes wrong and you fail to reproduce it even on countless repetitions!!
Failure is a part of the research process, and we need to get over it soon to start afresh. Here is a game by naturejobs.com, which helps in overcoming the bad phase by smashing and breaking the glass wares in a lab. Although, it may seem funny if you play that game being in a good mood, it will help if you are really frustrated!!
My review: If you are really in a bad mood, play it. If you are happy, you may find the game silly!!
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