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Dance Your Way to a Ph.D.
3) Hydrodynamic Trail Detection in Marine Organisms
Did Cirque du Soleil enter this contest? This Ph.D. went all out on the costumes, and this one definitely gets my blue ribbon for most imaginative interpretation. You gotta love anyone who dresses up as the Lion King and performs night-vision hula-hooping, aerial acrobatic stunts, and fire juggling, and fits in Dead or Alive’s You Spin Me Round.
4) Sea Turtle Conservation Dance
These runners-up chose a more modern style, rather than the crowd-pleasing Vitamin D crew. Rolling around the floor, arching their backs over makeshift trapezes, spinning, contorting their arms, looking tortured and anguished—this video almost made me want to go out and help save sea turtles with my bare hands. Almost.
5) Uneasy Alchemy
This should have been a Beatles music video. The dance features an adorable Bette Midler-esque professor directing traffic, doing the robot, and twirling around the room with a parasol, surrounded by what looks more like a gymnastics team than a group of Ph.D.s. They even manage to create some semblance of a coordinated group dance at the end, but they probably shouldn’t give up their day jobs just yet.
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Thank you. Best antidote to the news. Should be required watching by all.
You made my Day! Am very gratreful to you for calling attention to this delightful world wide project. As a Ph.D. in the Arts & Parties, my hat's off to these imaginative creative scientists who are integrating art and scientific discovery. Bravo.
Who knew PhDs could be so creative? Great find!
Now there's an antidepressant! Thanks so much.
Awesome! Wonderful! There's nothing like modern / interpretive dance and science to get me going ;-)
I haven't laughed that hard since August...
Thank you!
This was on a NYT blog a month ago. I love the additional commentary though.
Science meets YouTube! Great videos here, truly recommendable to watch.
Maybe I can try this when I do my dissertation defense in a few years. Might be worth a shot.
Thank you.
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