Saturday, August 28, 2010

Rob Pike on Pop Culture Science

Rob Pike (yes that Rob Pike) wrote Know your science ranting about entertaining abuses of science like Periodic Tables of sci-fi movies or typography and celebrity equations. "Making arbitrary cultural artifacts by abusing scientific ideas is not just wrong, it's offensive. It cheapens science."

He's right, but could have a little more fun. I was just surprised to see he watches The Big Bang Theory and reads (and writes to!) Entertainment Weekly.

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