Presenting the "other" side of academic physics, where people backstab and give lousy talks. Where people are sometimes lazy or incompetent, and the best don't get the credit or the job. From the perspective of someone lucky enough to have landed a tenure-track professorship.
Thursday, May 11, 2006
David Blaine's Contributions to Science
I don't watch Blaine's stunts, but I'm glad to hear that his corporal abuse (note the $10 word) is put to some use as mentioned in Salon. Apparently, after he starved himself for 44 days, they studied what happened when they fed him again and reported the results in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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This is what I think: David Blaine's Dive of Death
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