So you think you can dance, geek!
Posted by Dave Bath on 2008-11-21
While I’m a dance-blind geek (when young and choreographed, I could dance in a chorus line, but I’ve never been able to "read" dance), it was worth watching a Gonzo Labs Dance Competition for Ph.D. theses.
The videos of the dances are available on YouTube.
The winner from the Garvin Research Centre in Sydney, playing "The Sugar Plum Fairy" from the "Nutcracker", danced "The role of vitamin D in beta cell function"
Anyway… here is a selection from the top contestants as judged by professional dance teachers and the popularity on YouTube.
- The role of vitamin D in beta cell function
- Cerebral activation patterns induced by inflection of regular and irregular verbs with positron emission tomography. A comparison between single subject and group analysis
- Resolving Pathways of Functional Coupling in Human Hemoglobin Using Quantitative Low Temperature Isoelectric Focusing of Asymmetric Mutant Hybrids
- Single Molecule Measurements of Protelomerase TelK-DNA Complexes
I still don’t get it… but it was fun watching!
See Also/Notes:
- Other notes on the competition available at: AAAS Science Magazine
- New Scientist (2008-11-20) reports on New project aims to unite science and Hollywood, at scienceandentertainmentexchange.org… aaah, maybe that’ll cut down the number of stupid SF films and get back to the tradition of "2001", and a newer film from the director of "Trainspotting", "Sunshine"
