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November 23, 2003
Embrace your inner nerd By Tom Smith If you blog or read blogs, there is a good chance you are a nerd or have nerd-like tendencies. It's OK. Embrace it. Among other things, nerds are known for surprising sexual powers. Look at Glen Reynolds! Anyway, PBS's Nova is a good show for your inner nerd. The recent show on Magnetic Storms was quite good. The End of the World As We Know It theme was a bit overdone, but definitely worth watching. Contrast that to the Nova series on String Theory. I still don't get it. But I can summarize for you. The universe, believe it or not, is made out of little string thingies that are really, really, really, really, really small. The evidence for this is . . . well, there is no evidence for this. But it's a really elegant theory, and the media spokesperson for String Theory, Brian Greene, is pretty good looking for a physicist. It ought to be called, the Elegant Self-Promoting Physicist. Did I mention strings are really small? They are. Or would be, if they existed. But whether they exist or not, they sure are elegant. |