Dance Your Ph.D. Winner Announced

sciencehabit writes When she isn't out in the forest gathering data for her Ph.D. in plant biology at the University of Georgia, Athens, Uma Nagendra spends a good deal of her time hanging upside down from a trapeze doing circus aerials. "It turns out that there are a lot of scientists doing it," she says. To combine the two halves of her life, she teamed up with her fellow aerialists to create the midair dance based on her scientific research. Nagendra's circus extravaganza is the overall winner of this year's "Dance Your Ph.D." contest.

Not fair

[vivaoporto]

Not fair, her Ph, D as in Critical Dance Studies [slashdot.org]!

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[vivaoporto]

Critical Dance Studies [ucr.edu]!

Damn you Lorem Ipsum placeholder hrefs!

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[Shoten]

Not fair, her Ph, D as in Critical Dance Studies [slashdot.org]!

And I was about to make some snarky remark about how most Ph.Ds seem not to provide much value in this day and age...

Cheap

[HairyNevus]

Pshh, of course it's easy to make a winning dance about tornadoes. I think the dance of mayonnaise [vimeo.com] should have won hands-down. Clearly, the judges are Miracle-whip fanboys.

Strippers getting advanced degrees

[Anonymous Coward]

I know a few women that have danced their way to PhDs. College is expensive, do what you gotta do.

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[sandytaru]

It's Athens. The strippers, bartenders, waiters, and waitresses are pretty likely to be more educated than any given patron.

That said, trapeze is a huge thing here for some reason. There are at least 2-3 such studios. It's great exercise, I've been told by its practitioners.

Great, wow

[Anonymous Coward]

Who the fuck cares

Lord of the Dance!

[Spy Handler]

er, I mean Doctor of the Dance

yuk

[Charliemopps]

That was terrible. It's only saving grace was skinny Santa Clause. I had no idea he was in Cirque du Soleil.

Okay, no more spoon feeding

[weilawei]

Here's the rest of them [gonzolabs.org].