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Dance Your Ph.D. Winner Announced

Posted by samzenpus on from the just-dance dept.

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.

14 comments

  1. Not fair by vivaoporto · · Score: 0

    Not fair, her Ph, D as in Critical Dance Studies!

    1. Re:Not fair by vivaoporto · · Score: 1

      Critical Dance Studies!

      Damn you Lorem Ipsum placeholder hrefs!

    2. Re:Not fair by Shoten · · Score: 1

      Not fair, her Ph, D as in Critical Dance Studies!

      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...

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  2. Cheap by HairyNevus · · Score: 1

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

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  3. Strippers getting advanced degrees by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

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

    1. Re:Strippers getting advanced degrees by sandytaru · · Score: 1

      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.

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  4. Great, wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Who the fuck cares

    1. Re:Great, wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ROFLcopter.

  5. Lord of the Dance! by Spy+Handler · · Score: 1

    er, I mean Doctor of the Dance

  6. yuk by Charliemopps · · Score: 1

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

    1. Re:yuk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I didn't expect these to be incredible but that was really lame.

  7. Okay, no more spoon feeding by weilawei · · Score: 1, Informative

    Here's the rest of them.

  8. Don't dance your PhD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...if you want to be taken seriously as a dancer or a scientist