Dr. Angela Collier plays the Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and talks at length about what went wrong with string theory, and how that affected science communication.

  • JadziaMostral@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    She made a comment about it early on. I think it’s to distract her a little so she doesn’t just spend the next hour talking in detail about maths.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah. I’ve seen her do other videos and she doesn’t play a game. I think it might just have been a way to keep the tone conversational. Near the end, as she got the complex stuff, the game got harder and her presentation suffered a little. I’m hoping she doesn’t stick with this format: not my favority.

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      1 year ago

      That’s what writing a script ahead of time is for.

      Leave it to a physicist to think they need to resolve every problem in other fields.

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      1 year ago

      Is this the difficulty in communication she’s referring to? That she has to play video games when discussing scientific topics like she’s Sam Bankman-Fried?

      • JadziaMostral@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        Nah she means the difficulties in science communication which the string theory proponents have caused through misleading the general public, and causing the average punter to view physicists with skepticism or assume that all physicists are string theorists.