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mk  ·  3988 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system

    He has never been tempted to buy a television, but was persuaded to watch The Big Bang Theory last year, and said he wasn't impressed.

He won me over there.





thenewgreen  ·  3988 days ago  ·  link  ·  

As you know, my wife has been doing research this past year. I'm always amazed by how many papers she's a "co-author" on. She works hard, no doubt about it, but it seems there's always a "paper" to be written. I guess I didn't realize how much work was constantly being done that warranted writing about.

As for the Big Bang Theory, I want to know who the asshole is that insisted that this be his introduction to television? Idiot.

That said, if you were to pick one show to introduce Peter Higgs to the amazing story telling abilities of television (anything NOVA or Sagan are out) what would it be?

user-inactivated  ·  3987 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Breaking Bad, maybe.

Less of a focus on science and more on story-telling here. I could write a thesis paper on all the amazing stuff Breaking Bad has done.

thenewgreen  ·  3987 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The idea of Peter Higgs watching Breaking Bad is somehow really funny. It does involve some alchemy, science and chemistry. He may be a fan. I'd smoke Peter Higgs' meth, just to see...

mknod  ·  3984 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    That said, if you were to pick one show to introduce Peter Higgs to the amazing story telling abilities of television (anything NOVA or Sagan are out) what would it be?

I think it would actually be a great disservice to Higgs to introduce him to a television show that is already about something he knows quite a bit about (i.e. science) he might like a show that is less about science and more about humanity.

Having said that, I don't know, what I would pick.