The most interesting thing you ever read / studied

[whiskeytown]

Susan Faludi's "Stiffed"

It's basically a feminist writing a book about what she perceived to be one thing - (men comfortable in their stature) and instead found another...

sorta reveals men to be trapped in the same sort of stereotype images and likes as women do...For example, when Sylvester Stallone tried to do a serious film like Copland, it tanked - he had to live up to the same image of men that girls do in magazines with models are too skinny, and it's just as rough as what women go through.

Also a great story about how when the inmates in a prison were given a chance by a card company to pick out and have sent a free mother's day card. The line formed around the cellblock and had to be extended for two more days to accomadate all the inmates wanting to send their mother a card.

Father's day they didn't get NO business, which would imply many things...but the most relevant is they didn't give a rats ass or didn't HAVE a dad. Sorta makes you question certain social structures like families and whether they're more important then you originally thought.

RB

[Hobbs.]

My thesis work: modeling phase transitions of the ammonium-sulfate-nitrate aerosol.

[Rduke55]

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My PhD thesis, which is about finished now.


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what is your thesis topic?

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The title is "Improving the mismatch between light and single molecules using enhanced metallic nanostructures."

It better have been interesting to me because I've spent like 5.5 years of the prime of my life doing it. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

If you want to know what that stuff means, Google "Bowtie nanoantennas" and you'll get an idea.

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I don't know many people who are still fascinated by their thesis by the time they are done with it. Congratulations on still retaining the passion for it.

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

"On Thermonuclear War" by Herman Kahn

[mindless]

Senior year at MIT took a class with Alan Guth called "The Early Universe" which was basically Guth talking about how he came up with the inflationary universe theory and all of its ramifications. Fascinating stuff...especially the day when he came in with a copy of the front page of NYTimes article about him.

Also, he had this strange method of grading tests- he would take around three weeks to grade the tests (there were only about 20 people in the class) but when he gave them back, he gave you an essay that that told you what you got wrong, and what your mistakes meant with respect to any fundamental misunderstandings you might have held. I learned more from his corrections than I did from studying.

[theghost]

Copland was good

[Riverman]

Genetic differences between races, particularly regarding intelligence, and the consequenses of them

[Dave I]

Clearly, this.

[The DaveR]

Black-Scholes-Merton is up there but that's so lame.

More likely it's something about food or cooking.

[limon]

pimp by iceberg slim. just incredible in so many ways
elegant universe by greene
Nietzsche in general
Locke in general
super system. i never get tired of it
an american night by james douglas morrison