Lovely post about the value of collaboration from Star Stryder ("Blogging the sky one sidereal day at a time...), aka Dr. Pamela L. Gay, an astronomer at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. In short, it's better together. Begins with this quote and click-worthy:
Science is an act of collaboration. While there are the lone geniuses among us out there making independent breakthroughs in mathematics and thought, these brilliant minds would be nothing if there wasn’t a community to hear their theories, run with their ideas, and evolve in response to their new visualizations of reality.