"Dance Your Ph.D"

Hiya! How's she going? Good to see you! Coffee's perky and the VTs are delicious as always so dance your way over to the coffee pot and dig in. Did I say 'dance'? What was I thinking...? Must have been related to today's topic...dancing and education.

The missing element in obtuse doctoral dissertations in science is that they cannot be danced to, according to writer John Bohannon and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which has established an annual "Dance Your Ph.D" video competition, and this year's finalists were being selected at press time. 

Sarah Wilk was an entrant, featured in a Wall Street Journal report using glowing green balls and a flaming Hula-Hoop to help illustrate her "Odd-Z Transactinide Compound Nucleus Reactions Including Discovery of 260-Bh." 

So was Peter Liddicoat, using a chorus line of a juggler and a ballerina and others for "Evolution of Nanostructural Architecture in 7000 Series Aluminum Alloys During Strengthening by Age-Hardening and Severe Plastic Deformation." 

Uh-huh. With titles like those, one can see why they could use a little help with presentation, eh. Well, I for one think training for this kind of visual interpretation should begin much earlier. How about Kindergarten? There, the students would have no problem whatsoever coming up with a 'routine'.
With about 26 years of study and dance practice, they'd be super ready to wow their audience by PhD time!

I also think it should be on the electoral ballot, don't you?

See ya, eh!

Bob