Sunday, March 02, 2008

MC Nerding it Up


Scientists are a jovial bunch. Despite the common stereotype, most do enjoy a good party. Especially a good drink. At least in my experience, scientist + alcohol + dancefloor = good times (+ embarrassing pictures later).

Some nerds across the pond have taken it one step further, where at a recent party, they were urged to "Dance their PhD". That is, to create an interpretive dance based on their dissertation topic. It was organized by a molecular biology grad student that also moonlights as a club DJ.

You can see interesting video from the scene here. Honestly, most of it isn't that great aside from Simone Recchi's "Dynamical and chemical evolution of blue compact dwarf galaxies." In my mind, the post-doc astronomer from University of Trieste really got it when he performed to Daft Punk's "Around the World".

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