"Dance Your Ph.D." Winner Announced

sciencehabit writes "Science Magazine has crowned the winner of its annual 'Dance Your Ph.D.' contest. Scientists from around the globe are invited to submit videos of themselves interpreting their graduate theses in dance form. The results are often hilarious--and highly entertaining--and this year is no exception. This year's winner is Peter Liddicoat, a materials scientist at the University of Sydney in Australia, whose 'Evolution of nanostructural architecture in 7000 series aluminum alloys during strengthening by age-hardening and severe plastic deformation' is interpreted as a performance that employs juggling, clowning, and a big dance number—representing the crystal lattices that he studies with atomic microscopy."

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[The Archon V2.0]

I don't know, I thought the Sith had a good knack for it [youtube.com].

Re:No PhD here.

[Antipater]

In English, you don't have to pull out the fancy Latin grammar if you don't want to. How often do people talk about penises, not penes? Or their Facebook statuses, instead of their Facebook status (preferably with a long mark over the u)?

Re:No PhD here.

[Samantha Wright]

The difference, as with all things in language, is that "theses" is commonly accepted, and "thesises" isn't. We are ostracising the submitter for getting a convention wrong, not violating a rule.

Re:Because ostracizing (note the spelling) ...

[Samantha Wright]

Your horse is not nearly as high as you think it is [wikipedia.org].

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[Anonymous Coward]

It is interesting that a Latin geek like myself still would say penises. However, on Greek -is words, I do those correctly. Normally, I am far more pedantic about Latin than Greek. Weird.

I don't think it's that weird, dude. Usually when you are describing the concept of "Penis" in the plural, you use words like "Cocks" or "Dicks." I only use the word penis when I'm talking to my physician to ask him "why does my penis hurts when I pee?" and I only have one. How many times would you say "Damn, look at that bitch suck three Penes at once!!" No. The plural of penis is "Cocks."

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[Anonymous Coward]

Let's see... googleing "thesises"... first two results:

Did you mean: theses
Search Results

Common English Errors in Master's Thesises
people.dsv.su.se/~jpalme/english-mistakes.html
Here are some common mistakes in the use of the English language by Student's writing Master's thesises.

Urban Dictionary: thesises
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=thesises

Ah, that was what those Zumba johns were up to

[PolygamousRanchKid]

They were just dancing their Ph.D.s.

Topic?

Screwing the Country

Monsters vs. Aliens

[jd2112]

Am I the only person who immediately thought of the scene in Monsters vs. Aliens where Dr. Cockroach revealed that his Ph.D. WA in Dance? (Yes I have a child, that was her favorite movie for a while.)

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[swanzilla]

Am I the only person who immediately thought of the scene in Monsters vs. Aliens where Dr. Cockroach revealed that his Ph.D. WA in Dance?

Yes.

"thesises"

[Anonymous Coward]

FYI, the plural form for thesis is theses.

Solaris Printer Installation

[pr0nbot]

I'm reminded of this classic from a bygone age of the internet:

http://web.archive.org/web/19961222143340/http://www.europa.com/~dogman/install.html [archive.org]

Plurals of Greek "*is" words

[eric31415927]

The proper plural of thesis is theses, with a long e sound in the second syllable.
Until reading the blurb for this Slashdot article, I have never seen anyone get this wrong.

Some people mispronounce the plural of basis. It is bases, with a long e sound in the second syllable.

What really bugs me are people who mispronounce "processes." Its singular form does not end in "is." It is not a Greek word at all. The proper pronunciation of the plural is with a short e sound in the last syllable. Too many people

Let's recurse...

[K. S. Kyosuke]

Someone majoring in psychology should make a PhD thesis on PhD candidates performing their theses in dance form, and then, perform his thesis in dance form.

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[ne0n]

Somebody already did a meta-study of these theses; here's a video of Willowtalk reading the results at maximum speed to a crowd of planking Aussies covered in hot grits. [youtube.com]

Gynecology

[Tubal-Cain]

Gynecologists have it easy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8kDsM0M-vg [youtube.com]

Amazing Performance

[roland_mai]

I thoroughly enjoyed it. Really cool performance.

Atom Microscopes !?!

[AkiraToy]

Holy smokes! Anyone heard of this atom microscope they use? I see they're now planning to build one for biology - http://indiegogo.com/atom-microscope [indiegogo.com]

Schrodinger Dance

[nsh]

Schrodinger Dance [haun.org] is famous in Japan.
That goes such as:
Psi and Phi, Psi and phi