"Dance Your Ph.D." Winner Announced 31
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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Re:No PhD here. (Score:4, Informative)
Re:No PhD here. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Because ostracizing (note the spelling) ... (Score:4)
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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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Let's see... googleing "thesises"... first two results:
Did you mean: theses
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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 (Score:2)
They were just dancing their Ph.D.s.
Topic?
Screwing the Country
Monsters vs. Aliens (Score:2)
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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" (Score:1)
FYI, the plural form for thesis is theses.
Solaris Printer Installation (Score:2)
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 (Score:2, Informative)
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... (Score:5, Funny)
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Gynecology (Score:2)
Amazing Performance (Score:1)
Atom Microscopes !?! (Score:1)
Schrodinger Dance (Score:1)
That goes such as:
Psi and Phi, Psi and phi