When I started my research career, the first thing that my mentors taught me is the importance of a logbook. We were all given research logbooks upon joining the lab; I was told that this was even part of the standard issue from the government (having been trained in a government-sponsored university) . We were told to keep them clean and organized. We were not supposed to white-out any mistakes in our entries. Most importantly, we were told not to tear off any page from the logbook. As my former supervisor once said, “What if your Nobel Prize-winning discovery, very revolutionary that you thought of it as a mistake, is actually written in that logbook? How would you stake your claim to the discovery if it was not recorded?” Of course, as scientists, we are supposed to take down notes and record all of our observations. The tradition dates probably as far back as the ancient Greeks (well, the teachers themselves did not write their lessons, but their students took down note...