Day: December 25, 2008

  • Have tunes? Gotta dance?

    Piles of paper surround me. Wrapping paper for presents. Your exams and lab reports. (Not to worry, no one in the family received socks wrapped in a lab report.) And it’s snowing. So what do I do?

    What would anyone do?

    Surf for distractions, of course.

    A student emailed me this song from Science Groove: Hooray for NMR Spectroscopy! (http://www.science-groove.org/Now/Hooray_lofi.mp3)

    I also watched the winners of Gonzo Labs & AAAS/Science magazine 2009 Dance Your Ph.D. Contest. My personal faves: the Sue Lynn Lau & group on the left (good music, joyful sunshine, capoeira moves) and Vince LiCata with red-shirted subunits on center right (watch for Old Man Winter as a cryogenic cooler). Check it out!

    Maybe Reed should have a “Dance Your Non-dance Thesis” contest? (To make this fair, dance majors would have to sing their theses.) Got any nerdy web material to share? Post a comment or just say “hi”.