The dance video “Microstructure-Property relationships in Ti2448 components produced by Selective Laser Melting: A Love Story” won the grand prize in the 2011 Dance Your Dissertation Contest. Joel Miller of the University of Western Australia did the dissertation, and the dance. The music is “Mischa” by the Perth indi-electropop band The Transients. Here’s the video: [vimeo]30299036[/vimeo] [DISCLOSURE: Several of […]
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Smell-mediated response in flies — The dance video
Just as — and yet completely unlike the way — you’ll not see anything quite like the bee dance created and performed by Michael Smith, you’ll not see anything to match this dance video by Cedric Tan. He made the video, called “Smell mediated response to relatedness of potential mates“, and entered it into the 2011 Dance Your […]
The bee dance of Michael Smith, scientist
You’ll not see anything quite like the bee dance created and performed by Michael Smith. Smith made this video and entered it into the 2011 Dance Your Dissertation competition: [vimeo]29611383[/vimeo] Here’s how he describes the action: In this dance, we see the first bee emerging from a trunk (her hive), and adopting a guarding stance. […]
Copyright connundrum of Pi digital music
Vi Hart made this video to explain and deplore the legal questions, copyrightically speaking, that arise when a composer converts the digits of the number pi into musical notes; In this related video, Hart counts, on the digits of one hand, some related musings:
Dancing his Biblical Hebrew collective nouns
The most salient video entered in this year’s Dance Your Dissertation contest is based on Keith A. Massey‘s Ph.D. dissertation: ‘The concord of collective nouns and verbs in Biblical Hebrew: A controlled study’, 1998, University of Wisconsin. BONUS: Keith Massey also wrote the book Intermediate Arabic for Dummies.