Discover magazine has announced a contest:
Your goal is to create a video that quickly and clearly explains perhaps the most baffling idea in the history of the world: string theory.
And the best part is that you have just two minutes.
You'll be happy to know that Peter Woit has already bowed out (suggested concept: standing in front of a whiteboard, hopping up and down, and yelling, "It's crap! Crap crap crap crap crap!" for two minutes).
This is a sure path to fame and fort-- well, actually, they don't appear to be offering money, so just fame. Well, actually, they just promise to feature your video on their web page, so it's only nerd fame. But if you've got a webcam and a good two-minute explanation of string theory, Discover wants you...
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I'm tempting the fates by putting my words above the fold this time.
Rana was bragging in comments to the previous entry about his blog movie rating. Naturally, being the competitive sort, I had to try to beat his score by using even more naughty words than he did. But did I succeed in my quest? No, I did not.
See Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do, or, the author's weblog.
I just read this fascinating theory that was fully explained in a review that appeared in the latest issue of Cell. This theory connects the origin of cell polarity with aging and it suggests that the centrosome may carry genetic information.
We could just speed up Barton Zwiebach by a factor of 100 or thereabouts.
An artistic representation of string theory: http://www.nedroid.com/showimage.html?Image=images/beartato-sciencenugg…
Hi Chad,
it escaped me - where did Peter suggest that course of action ? I must have missed something!
Cheers,
T.