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She Blinded Me With Science...And Awesome Dance Moves

hortense — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:00:00 EST

Hey, Scientists: need a way to explain your complicated thesis to others? Perhaps you should consider entering the "Dance Your Ph.D" contest, an annual challenge designed to give scientists the chance to express their thesis work through dance. This year's winners have just been announced, and include Sue Lynn Lau, a graduate student at the University of Sydney, Australia, who designed a routine as a representation of her thesis, "The role of Vitamin D in beta-cell function." The synopsis given on Lau's entry: "Every PhD begins in the dark, but it takes only a few bright sparks to kindle the flame of discovery." The contest is a pretty rad way to combine science and the arts, and is an incredibly creative way to share one's academic work without using any words at all. Clip after the jump.

Dance Your Ph.D [Metafilter]

Well, she's certainly big news now.

eurotrash — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 05:45:43 EST

So, farewell then, Anna Nicole Smith. We cared about you a little bit more than Rachel Bilsom and a little bit less than Mischa Barton.

But as the conspiracy theories swirl [It was the lawyer! It was the ex! It was evil Trimspa henchmen!], we think the situation is best summed up by this comment, over on Mefi:

"Probably a morbid issue to raise up, but can you imagine what the legal fuss over the inheritance is going to be now? According to the Wikipedia entry on her (which they've already updated- jeez, that was quick) her son's dead, her daughter's an infant who couldn't be a legal beneficiary, and her husband isn't legally married to her because they had an unlicensed ceremony in the Bahamas. And the guy who was suing her for the estate to begin with died last year.
So after all these years and all that nonsense, all the money might be held in escrow for a year-old kid. Which will probably go mostly toward therapy because sweet Christ, is this kid gonna grow up fucked up."

Amen to that.

[Celebrity dies. World stops turning.]
[Someone talks sense on Metafilter. World stops turning a bit more.]

It's not you it's him. Got that, bitch?

eurotrash — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:41:52 EST

Did you ever have a boyfriend that even though he went off and slept with five hookers, came back and gave you the clap, stole all your drugs and money and then slept with another three hookers before dumping you, somehow, in the aftermath, it was all about HIS pain? (Quiet there at the back, Britney!)

Well, we think he's popped up on Metafilter. You'd think that the call for the ending of female genital mutilation by one of Islam's most respected theological centers would be the occasion of some back-slapping for the many thousands of little girls who won't have their clitorises hacked off with a rock. But you're ignoring the real issue here, featherbrains.

Yet again, it's all about the boys and their immensely more important pain.

"I look forward to the day when similar fatwas are made against male genital cutting. It probably won't be for a couple hundred years, but I may be wrong - cultural consciousness has been shown to undergo radical and rapid shifts in the past. Perhaps by that time, we'll have female mullahs who can add their voice without the bias of being cut themselves."

Because there's absolutely no difference between circumcision, and slicing off a clitoris, then sewing up the wound with twine. Uh-huh. Yup.