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So had to share this as I find it highly amusing. In this week's Science Magazine "on the Record" section there was this blurb:
Science at the movies
The silver screen is the latest weapon in the Pentagon's bid to bolster national defence. It is training scientists to write screenplays in the hope that films featuring glamorous researchers will draw more US students into science


LMAO. First, the odds of them netting a scientist that can write a good screenplay? Pretty slim. Second, that one of those that is "good" is willing to blatantly lie and portray research as being glamorous? Okay...well, scientists lying isn't unheard of...but well, really. Eccentric, odd, boring, those things I could easily and honestly portray scientists as being. But the simple fact that so few actually work well with others makes it difficult to portray it as glamorous. I think even the physicists at Los Alamos back in the hey day would have admitted that it would be hard to portray the actual nitty gritty as glamorous.

CSI tries it's best to make the actual business part of science interesting. But even to tell a story they have to have the forensics guys take part in the questioning. Lab work just doesn't lend itself to story telling unless something goes horrendously wrong.

Then this caught my eye when I started explorer: Stampede for Cheap Laptops

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