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Sebastian's approach to lab meetings was simple, pummel them into productivity. His preferred approach was the carrot and stick method where the carrot was a joy of not being beaten with a stick. It operates on the principle that pain avoided is a form of pleasure. Sebastian's reputation did most of the work honed as it was over the past seven years in a countless series of public humiliations of postdocs graduate students, two assistant professors and one dean of Social Sciences who had the audacity to lecture on the psychological trauma of graduate research. Doctor Cortez was called into the president's office on that one. But his two funded oral ones, a macarthur genius grant and the fact that he was a Howard Hughes investigator meant he wasn't going anywhere on the more granular level. His weekly lab meetings kept the workers on their toes and they all reluctantly admitted his relentless demands for perfection had made them a powerhouse of cutting edge research.