Please believe I have nothing against romance novels, just this particular romance novel. I am going to hard pivot this channel into #booktube I just read The Chrysalids and it was so good. Join me on Patreon --- / acollierastro
The year is 2033. Shooting for the Love Theoretically movie adaptation is about to begin. Screenplay written by Ali Hazelwood, completely faithful to the book. She was so excited they'd use her script in the movie. They ask Ali if she'd like to come tour the set. She scoffs, disgusted. How dare they. She's a *theorist*"
11:26 theoretical researchers are more excited than experimentalists about going to the lab. They get all the fun without the "shit I gotta align this again"
An experimental physicist thinks "what a lovely, compact formula" while a theorist thinks "oh, gosh, the geometry of this shit is completely broken in the corner cases this and this and that, let's just hack a new term one more time".
The "but my models are just theoretical!" absolutely killed me. What a ludicrous statement, like a scriptwriter being shocked that someone wants to turn their script for a movie into a movie, because 'it's just a script!' The tattoos bit is amazing too, i love this channel
The idea that since the Theoretical Physics Apocalypse, all experimental physics has just been people banging rocks together trying to make Science™ through trial and error is really funny
I was literally in the process of commenting that this video has big Jenny Nicholson energy and then you hit me with the "this is published Reylo fanfic"
You know, they said it would never work between us We're from completely different worlds Me, an applied mathematician And you, a theoretical physicist with a master's degree in applied mathematics But I've been crunching the numbers of our romance and it seems we're uniformly converging to the same limit of real infinite love.
@@deltalima6703 "Sometimes, imaginary isn't enough", he very slowly and dramatically writes down, "i^2=j^2=k^2=-1", and after a moment, "ij=k, jk=i, ki=j". She then feels her feelings turning in a world free of gimbal lock, as she falls into his arms. "If I show you the Taylor expansion will you cosine the deal?". "Seems like a bit of a tangent. How about we start with Newton's method?", as he whispers into her ear, "y'=y*(2-x*y); my feelings can't be divided", as her reservations melt away...
As a librarian who uses Goodreads to help catalog books, I can only say that the regular Goodreads crowd is utterly unpredictable and actively makes looking for books to recommend to people confounding.
Always start with 1-star reviews. Those are always far more revealing about the actual qualities of a book or a movie than positive reviews which are either worthless fan-praise, astroturfed boosting by author/fans/publisher/bots OR simply "if you can't say anything nice" 5-starring by people too polite and/or too casual to care. 1-star and 2-star reviews are done by people who care enough to either just vent hate (which usually tells you WHO hates such books and often also WHY) - or by people willing to spend time and effort to produce an in depth analysis and explanation of said book's faults.
I am a T1 diabetic and actually started having a hypo as I started to watch this video. So as my brain started to shut down and the “cog fog” descended and then Angela was talking about the heroine feinting from diabetes it all got, as the kids say, very meta. Angela is making a teaching point here, I thought, and the teaching point is go to the kitchen and get orange juice and consume that instead of watching RU-vid in bed. So I did that and that is the story of how, at the risk of being melodramatic, Angela reviewed a terrible book and in doing so literally saved my life. And now I am watching the rest of the video only this time with an adequate level of blood glucose.
Meanwhile I've been fighting a persistent high for over two hours from having some leftover pizza. Yes, Angela, constant stress can cause psychological harm. My doctor's office gives me annual screening questionnaires for depression and anxiety because of it.
Wow. The commentary about Emma Noether is pretty devastating. One one level it's professional malfeasance not to include such a beautiful piece of real life analogy, which is one of the reasons we read, which any author would be guilty of of, but for someone purporting to write 'steminist' lit, it's like giving someone 'ramen' that you made with spaghetti noodles.
It's Emmy, and in German the 'oe' in her surname Noether is pronounced the same as for the famous poet Goethe, whose name approximately rhymes with the last two syllables of the word 'frankfurter' in English (but not exactly in German). So just repeat the phrase "Emmy Noether conserved a frankfurter" and you are on the right track.
Drake's formula is so comically long it just makes me crack up thinking about someone having a tattoo of it. I'm just imagining it like wrapping halfway around his body so you can't see all of it at once from any one angle
It's: N = R⁎ · fp · ne · f1 · ·fi · fc · L where every of the second letters is subscripted. It's not long. The problem with the Drake Equation is that it is very, very silly and is a way to invent a reason to presume an astonishing large high-end for the estimates of the number of possible alien civilizations. It is not serious, it is not scientific, and it is definitely not physics.
I read romance novels sometimes and Ali Hazelwood is bad - in the other book you mention of hers there’s a scene where the grad student sits on the professor’s lap DURING A LECTURE. IN PUBLIC. Now I’m no fancy pants science person working in stem … but this is incredibly unprofessional and gross.
The strange thing is, people don’t faint due to diabetes because of a lack of insulin, rather because they’ve taken too much (encouraging low blood sugar, which leads to fainting and, in the worst case, a diabetic coma). I only know this as my son has type 1.
Statistically, for realistic situations, yes, you're absolutely right. Except, lack of insulin for a long duration (we're talking multiple days, and the person would absolutely be very aware of it, what with the extreme unquenchable thirst and other symptoms), and so also high blood sugar for a long duration, could result in fainting and loss of consciousness (and the other type of diabetic coma). Very rare for people who know they have diabetes and manage it even remotely well, but I suppose not impossible for someone who can't get sufficient access to insulin (really bad healthcare system). That's not supposed to be something to skimp on (at worst at least lower the amounts and go on aggressive low-carb diet, it will still have health issues long-term but less than insufficient insulin) but there are cases. In practice this occasionally does happens with type 1 diabetes as initial discovery of the problem in children. Not all young kids will feel it's relevant to tell parents/adults they're feeling very thirsty and pee a lot for a few days. And not all parents/adults will consider it serious enough to consult a doctor if they're not familiar with the symptoms anyway. So a not-insignificant percentage of first diagnosis is when kids do faint, and blood sugar is checked as a part of the diagnostic process. But, again with the bad healthcare system so high cost of basic necessity like insulin, this is a somewhat common (or, well, if not very common than at least much too common than it should be) point that keeps repeating in various romance/drama books and movies from the US. The first time I saw this I was really puzzled, it's the absolutely inverse of the problem I'd expect a diabetic to maybe sometimes have if they can't balance their blood sugar perfectly, but it's not a rare trope.
Pilot here. The whole thing with her declining to see the lab reminds me of being a pilot every time we get offered a tour of the air traffic control tower. It's like, a) we jump at the chance to at least check out the view and b) we don't hate ATC, we want them funded and well-trained because it makes our jobs easier. Then in return we offer ATC opportunities to do ride along flights to show our perspective. It's just bonkers to think anyone would turn that down.
Italian boi who lives in Italy here: I can assure people eat pecorino. I will go further: I actually go to grocery store to buy pecorino so I can eat that in slices. It can be eaten alone but it reaches its best with honey or chili jam (or some other type of jams).
I can't believe you actually finished the whole book - it sounded painful. I'm an experimentalist whose partner is a theorist and to the shock of the whole physics community, we actually collaborate! The only issue I have is that I do actually sometimes shave a few slices of pecorino and eat them as a snack. When you started that part, I thought you were going to say that 5 lbs of pecorino at Whole Foods would cost more than a year adjunct salary - it's much better to get it at Costco (but that much would be hard to munch). The book might have actually been good if it had used sex work as a metaphor for the adjunct market. I used to know a guy who referred to day laborers at the home depot as post-docs - they do good work at temp jobs for no money. I also know more than a few people who do space things that have space related tats (like solar system maps), though my favorite nerd technical tat might be Adam Savage's ruler on his arm.
There was a lot of stuff that went over my head here, but I laughed out loud at the comparison of simple and complex harmonic motion and its sexual implications
when it felt like the video was starting to wind up, conclusions had been drawn, opinions made - i went to close the window and go to the comments, only to find there was still forty minutes to go 😭 i was so happy your videos are a constant blessing! thanks for making them
@@acollierastro I choose to be embarrassed that I like: Homestuck Women Men Bad Dragon I refuse to feel embarrassed about liking: fallout: equestria, the print edition My little pony: friendship is magic Adventure time Snails Rootbeer Furries Turtles Guns My friends Brony music
I've read everything written by Jennifer Lancaster and Lauren Weisberger. Don't be embarrassed, and when you feel embarrassment start creeping up on you just remember that there are people who read Scott Adams, Jordan Peterson, or Ben Shapiro books. *On purpose.* That's how I comfort myself, anyway.
I can't wait for your review of the 3 Body Problem, that thing is all the rage for a while now. Also I really really love how the frustration just builds like a kettle of boiling hot water.
The creepy behaviour of the main character of the second book absolutely made me mad. And it is portrayed as "romantic" 🤦 and the third book has idea like "only truly masculine manly men can make hard decisions". Yeah...
@@KateeAngel Well, traditionally hard science fiction and deep characters have not mixed too well. Think about the characters of Isaac Asimov. Pure cringe.
My advice for 3BP interested people is just to read Blindsight instead. It has similar themes/atmosphere but everything is 1000 times better and the prose is actually good and not terrible.
What I've heard is that the original 3bp is actually just as sexist as the other two, Ken Liu was just able to make slight translation shifts that covered it up. (Allegedly Ye Wenjie is portrayed in a super sexist manner.) The issue is more of a plot point than a portrayal issue in the 2nd and 3rd, so it wasn't possible.
I am neither the Barefoot Contessa, nor an Italian, however I love to have a few thin slices of Pecorino with a glass of sherry. For me, as well as seasoning, it is very much an eating cheese. That said, 5 lbs is completely insane and so is the author.
I agree, you can absolutely eat slices of pecorino. It's delicious. But 5 lbs is insane lol and it would definitely ruin her financially with the salary of an adjunct.
I have a friend with the 'bra' and 'ket' symbols on each side of her collar bones. It's pretty sick honestly. Simple, aesthetically pleasing, and a nod to her interest in quantum. On another note about tattoos: I once had a prof who legit said they'd let us bring any crib sheet with us into the final exam so long as we had it permanently tattooed on our bodies. This was a long-standing offer, something like 20 years, and honestly, I'm kinda surprised no one in that entire time ever took him up on it. Fyi, I tried to read this book and got all of two pages in before I was certain that it wasn't for me. I'm so glad you did the horrible work of trekking on ahead to validate my initial impressions. For a book about a woman in STEM that I'd actually recommend: "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow". It's about a couple of friends set in around the 90's who played video games together as kids and eventually decide to start a video game company when they run into each other again in university. One of the friends is a woman, and the other is a man, and the book makes appropriate comparisons between how they're treated within the industry, and how they treat each other. The characters are all horrible at times, but it's in the kind of way that feels painfully informed by real life. And the references to video games of around that era is... this book is clearly a love letter to video games, and I'm here for it.
For a woman in STEM book there's also the Susy Gage professor/detective series: "A Slow Cold Death", "Not Easy Being Green", and "Degrees of Freedom". [full disclosure - I'm the publisher]
A heads up is that tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow’s author unironically refused to give credit in her book to the creator of a tabletop game that she ripped off for the main video game of the book. So in a book about plagarising women and not giving them enough credit, the book itself did that.
I kind of wonder if you take the tattoo seriously, you end up deliberating enough that by the time you're line "Yes - this one - this is the one I need tattooed permanently on my arm" you've stared at it long enough you've simply got it memorized 😄
"Pecorino" refers to a variety of italian cheeses made from sheep's milk. Pecorino Romano is one of these, and I am happy to eat it straight up. I will buy a small amount, maybe a 1/3 of a pound, and nibble on it over a day or two. It has a strong and pleasing flavor to me. I have no idea if other people do this, but I am convinced I am not particularly remarkable or peculiar. So to answer your implicit question, "Who does that?", I have to raise my hand.
Wish books like these had more physics content, a love story based on Maxwell's equations and geometric algebra could be cool. Could be converted into a textbook as well.
Fascinating! I agree -- it would be interesting to incorporate academic culture & physics through themes and narrative or small in-group things rather than lists of buzzwords. Perhaps the time is ripe for a Maxwell's equation romance novel!
My emag class in college had a short sci fi story (think buck rogers) as the final exam that had you doing equations throughout to calculate transporter mishaps.
On the topic of physics tattoos: the best ones aren't equations, they're of less well-known phemonena, especially fluid mechanics ones. My high-school physics teacher had a really cool vortex shedding tattoo, and ive thought about getting a Rayleigh-Taylor instability one. "E=mc^2" never makes a good tattoo.
omg finally a vid talking about books. i'll watch later after work. can you do your favorite scifi books next? i just finished reading Lilith's Brood and it's fucking amazing.
I remember learning about Noether's theorem from a Google Doodle in like 2011 and being very confused by the technical definition. Thank you for explaining it in a way that I will absolutely remember going forward. And thank you for letting me know that the 2-3 sentence explanation you provided surpasses anything I would learn from that book 🙃
I need more reviews of books from you. Seriously... Even taking all the physics knowledge out, the way you addressed character motivations, backstory, plot, etc... was perfect. But I will content myself if you do a list of your favorite books. Any genre.
Genuinely love your bookshelf. I think there's a pretty big overlap with mine (Andy Weir, Terry Pratchett, James CA Corey, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Cixin Liu, etc.). I wish you'd do a series on some of your favorite (or least favorite) sci-fi, and what you thought of their sciences. Not... sure about this one tho (just started the video)... Edit, to add random comment after watching the whole (great) vid: you can totally eat Pecorino Romano! I mean, it wouldn't be my first choice, but I will totally take a nibble after I've grated like 500 grams of the damn thing (that's more than 1 lb for my fellow Americans) to make like 1 portion of Carbonara or Cacio e Pepe (I'm exaggerating... very slightly)
The way the video started out simple and became more and more of a wild rant is a good illustration of a complex harmonic oscillator. I was hoping you were going to break out the lasers on the book.
i love very serious analysis of "silly" things like this! genuinely could watch anything you put out though, despite not having a STEM background at all (i'm in social work!)
ive always wondered, do physicists actually know how insanely brilliant Noether was? They always talk about noethers theorem but (maybe this is my bias as an algebraist talking) noethers theorem is barely worthy of a footnote when compared to the amount of modern mathematical theory thats fundamentals come from what she did. I feel the need to stress that when people talk about noether as an example of a woman in stem they are almost always not giving her enough credit
sorry if this is weird but she says “i dont frot” in her “i dont do sex work” thing. i dint think she knows what that means i dont think cis women can do that idk
The author isn't a native speaker of English. She probably thought "frot" was short for "frottage", which the Oxford defines as, "the practice of touching or rubbing against the clothed body of another person in a crowd as a means of obtaining sexual gratification." This is stereo-typically achieved by the man standing behind the woman (such as on the bus or subway) and rubbing his "peen" between her butt cheeks. For women, they'll straddle a man's thigh and rub against it. I have no idea how "frot" came to mean rubbing peens, but I have long since given up trying to understand how kids co-opt words to express something they don't have another word for.
"Hey! There's that thing I know!" had me laughing out loud. They probably annoyed their date/friends/roommate afterwards trying to make them ask "Hey, You know a thing, so can you explain theorists and experimentalists?"
I do have to say, while the type of psychological harm expressed in this book is... unlikely, diabetes (especially Type 1) can have severe psychological impacts. Like, a close friend of mine is a type 1 diabetic, and he was diagnosed when he was about 18 months old. Let me tell you, there is no good way to explain to a literal toddler that their parents are hurting them constantly (finger pricks, injections, etc.) because the toddler will literally die otherwise. Having your food constantly policed (because, again, you will die otherwise) is not great either. Things are better for him now that the associated medical tech has improved so much, but yeah, that leaves one hell of a psychological hangover.
Didn't expect to finish this video feeling harassed about my cheese choices. Angela, please, listen to yourself. All cheese is eating cheese. That's why we make cheese. I'm going to go buy some pecorino and eat slices of it right now! :) #allcheeseiseatingcheese Rest of the video was based, informative, and hilarious as usual, thanks for making it! :)
When the "she got published on the cover of Nature" part happened, my partner turned to me and said "I have met one person who got published on the cover of Nature. He got it framed and showed it to everyone. If a grad student got the cover of Nature and then applied for a job at any university ever, the moment they'd step in the hiring committee would go 'oh my god you got published on the cover of Nature!' and hire them instantly"
Thank you Angela! Noether's Therom, Local Thermo Dynamic Equilibrium, Flux, Pointing Vectors. I am now well versed in all things physics and am looking forward to my new career as a Professor of Theoritcal Physics.
when the front-page article in Nature got mentioned, my thought was "lmao the author's just never heard of any journal outside of Nature and Science" but then the fact that Hazelwood _is_ a working scientist came into the picture. and that had me puzzled, but ultimately i think i can see where that choice might come from. writing for a general audience you can't expect every reader will know about the prestige levels of different journals, and it's far more likely they'll have at least heard of Nature or Science than Journal of Fuel Chemistry and Technology. it's like using the MoMA as a shorthand for the contemporary art world - even if that does mean that a reader with a bit of context will have a laugh when your protagonist who has work exhibited in the MoMA is currently doing $10 caricatures at a carnival (...though that would be a pretty good way to depict your protag starting the story just devastatingly washed up if that was your goal) tbh learning that the author is a scientist really threw me for a loop on the whole thing. it sounds a novel written by someone who doesn't have any real knowledge about science but wanted to use academia as a backdrop to set their story in. (which like, honestly fair enough) but it's so strange to have someone who *has* lived in the setting they're writing and *knows* how it works, to wind up writing something that sounds as though it's from an outsider. like it has to be a choice, right? did she feel like depicting more realistic details wouldn't be interesting enough for the average reader? did she think her audience couldn't handle science ideas beyond "random jargon to make people sound smart"? where in the *goddamn* did she get the idea that the "astral plane" has anything to do with physics???
I don't get that at all though, as a reader I hate when books assume I'm stupid and dumb down things, if it's a book about a topic I don't know and I find a given concept interesting I'll look it up lol. The general population knows very little about academia, true, but you can just... teach them (Especially with a book that sells itself as somewhat educational)? It's such an easy concept to introduce, either lazily by info dumping or by integrating it into the dialogue, the characters are supposed to be working scientists after all, talking about journals you published to is super common in my experience.
I would say that the general reader wouldn't even know Nature or Science, so the author may as well just get a more realistic journal, like it's not gonna make a different for the majority of the audience but it's gonna be WILD for those who do
Last month around christmas time, I was chatting with my sister who flew to the east coast from the midwest, and while chatting she told me about how she sat next to the most interesting character. My sister has been writing a fantasy novel in her spare time for a few years and she told me about how the person she sat next to on the plan was a neuroscience professor who aparently wrote a TON of Reylo fan fiction; and got famous for writing about how fan fiction is belittled as a genre; so she took a bunch of Reylo fanfiction she wrote, changed all the names, published them and became a best selling author. I am now a little stunned a month later I am hearing about this from your channel. As for the "is she a professor" debate. My sister mentioned it and I didn't know she existed prior to that conversation, so unless she was inclined to a random aspiring author on a plane about something like that I imagine she probably is.
1:15:09 I worked on "VEEP" the tv show we Made like 20 Fake wheels of Pecorino cheese But set dressing also bought an entire Pallet of Cheese .Every one got Pecorino after the show wrapped.
Love the video. Here's a brief breakdown of the act structures just in case people were curious: The most common act structure is the 3 act Rising Tension structure in this: Act 1 introduces the characters, what they want and what is stopping them from getting it. Act 2 escalates the narrative as the character(s) strive to reach their goals and culminates in the temporary highpoint, the Act 2 climax where it SEEMS like everything is taken care of, only for things to go pear-shaped, either because of cruel fate, personal failings or because the protagonist have gotten what they want but not what they need. Act 3 then is the tension of the story rising to it's climax where our hero's journey is completed, they have learned what they need to learn and achieved what they need, possibly with a short cooldown coda where our hero returns to where they started, now changed (implicitly for the better) by their adventure. There's also the 5 act "revenge play" structure which is a bit more complicated, but the easy version is that the characters are introduced in act 1, the story escalates in act 2, it seems like everything is solved, but then act 3 comes crashing down and things go from good to very bad. Act 4 furthers the downwards trend which finds its nadir in Act 5, the catastrophe. This structure maps cleaner to, for example, Shakespeare's tragedies than the 3 act structure, but it should be noted that the act breaks that help this we an addition of a later editor and not Shakespeare himself. Hope that's interesting to more people than me. Narrative nerd out!
I could definitely eat an amount of pecorino. It is normally used for seasoning but it has a nice flavor that can be appreciated on its own. Eating five (5) pounds of pecorino however is liable to give you some pretty severe dehydration or headaches, and think of your poor kidneys... although if you're splitting it between two people I could see two and a half pounds of pecorino being manageable over the course of a day, terrible bloating and gas aside.
Thanks for an entertaining review of a book that realistically I was never going to read anyway but I still enjoyed it (the review I mean). Also I like your oscilloscope. I hope that doesn't sound weird but there we go. It's a very nice oscilloscope.
Hi Angela, from your criticism of this book i strongly recommend reading "Beyond Sleep" by Willem Frederik Hermans It's not about physics, but about a geologist and it's certainly not romance and instead more literary fiction but it touches on most themes in this book far better. (Spoiler's only for things that are already on the blurb on the back of the book): 1. Experimental vs Theorethical science: The central journey in the book is the main charachter (Alfred)'s attempt to prove a theory devised by his promoter (Dutch version of a doctoral thesis supervisor) laying bare the real tensions between theorethical and practical science without resorting to outlandish fictions. 2. The tension between advisor and student: Alfred questions repeatedly whether he is wasting his time and harming his career by following the (unconventional and controversial) advice/theories of his promoter. 3. Legacy of a passed scientist parent: Alfred is treading in the footprints of his father who was a geologist who died on the job. This actually affects Alfred's character and motivations in a very realistic way. Besides dealing with these academic themes much better (even tough it was written many years ago) the book is also just incredibly good and one of the great masterpieces of the Dutch literary tradition (being considered for a Nobel prize in literature), it recieved a very strong English translation and has a lot of interesting things to say about academia, science, philosophy, nature, human relationships and Alfred's character.
I read the expanse recently and I’d probably say I learned a lot. I can’t really point to much other than things that are moving fast have to slow down before stopping. But I felt smarter after.
Loved your video! Haha I had a similar reaction to the previous book (Love on the Brain), because my background's in neuroscience and that's what that book is about. So much of the science just didn't make sense plus just like in this one the way academia works in that books was so strange (to the point that I seriously doubted that the author ever really worked in academia). I do read a lot of romance novels but still didn't really like these 😅. I really wanted to get why so many people love these novels, but I'll definitely skip any future books by the author 🙈
15:54 if an author adds on a joke based on assumpitons about the readers reaction... and that assumption is just plain wrong... it just comes across as insanely cringe I will now applaud myself for making everyone reading this comment literally roll on the floor, suffocating from laughter
About pecorino: although it is a hard cheese which is usually grated to sprinkle on pasta (as you say), or on risotto, in Italy when you buy it fresh it is actually a lot softer, and you can slice it thin and eat it on its own or just with some bread, maybe with a small bowl of fresh olive oil to dip the bread in too. The same is true with parmesan when it is fresh: I have been to a wine tasting in Rome where a large fresh parmesan was cut open to serve with bread, alongside the wines. Either pecorino or parmigiano are delicious when eaten in this way (assuming you like cheese), but I don't imagine it is so easy to get hold of the fresh stuff in the US (unless it is produced by some local artisan cheesemaker...). I live in the UK but have lived in Italy, so whenever I go back there I try to buy pecorino and/or parmigiano as fresh as possible, just before leaving, to take some home with me.
There's an old story about an accountant who goes into the office every day feeling nervous. Then he opens his drawer and reads a note that says debits on the left, credits on the right. Then he breathes a big sigh of relief and gets to work.
Reminds me of the one about the personnel manager who is always seen to be checking a note in his desk drawer for inspiration. When he retires they find it and it says "2 N's, 1 L".
I feel like when people write books like these they should have advisors to help make the science and academia side at least plausible. Also, I'm not a physicist of any stripe but I'm studying evolutionary biology and honestly seeing how something like adaptive landscapes or genetic hitchhiking actually work in a real experimental or observational setting would be soooo cool.
9/10!! Excellent Dr. Collier Epic Rant, would recommend. 1 point deducted due to short run time. Another 15 minutes of Angela's thoughts on Emmy Noether's significant life, work, and baffling absence from this book would have made a perfect round 90 minutes.. Keeping my fingers crossed for a Steminist Theory extended cut!!!😂
The best part of this video essay is AC's sendup of the fake antagonism between experimental and theoretical physics, and her vigorous defense of Emmy Noether and how she might have had a substantive place in a book like this. I don't read the romance genre, but if AC writes a proper romance novel based on physics themes, I'll buy it. But I expect she would have to use a pseudonym. How will I know?
Your points about theorists and experimentalists needing each other (and knowing it) in science is well-taken! But BTW, I experienced hostility between theorists and policy specialists, area specialists and other more practically-oriented scholars in my academic political studies career.
The whole tattoo thing at 23:00 got me. Now I wish there were a Memento skit of a physics student piecing together how they studied for the final based on the various equations and notes tattooed on their body
