In 2001 dr ramanathan took klaus tpfer , then unep 's executive director , on a flight along the foothills of the himalayas to see the brown cloud lapping at the mountain range like dirty water at the rim of a bathtub .
What is perhaps more fascinating than a naked scientist 's bathtub epiphany is how innovators commonly come from disciplines other than those they revolutionize .
或许比一个科学家的浴缸顿悟更令人着迷的是,创新者通常来自他们彻底变革的学科之外的其他学科。
Like toddlers scrapping over rubber ducks in a bathtub , countries are again quarrelling about the control of islets in the seas between them .