She blinded me with a Girl Thing
Jun. 25th, 2012 11:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunsen_hIf you'll forgive a brief cane-shaking kids-today-like-crappy-music comment (of the kind I've been making ever since I first heard music not selected by me or by my parents)...
Science, as a discipline — loaded word, that — requires long-term focus, both to learn a subject and to observe experiments. You need to notice anomalies, exceptions to an expected pattern; if you're very lucky, they can lead to discovery of something novel and important. If you're attracted by videos full of hard cuts, in which the longest uninterrupted segment is somewhat less than a second long, you're probably not going to do well in research.
(To say nothing of the bizarre and distasteful assumptions embedded in that video, about which much has been said elsewhere.)
Now imagining Magnus Pyke doing a voice-over: "She blinded me! With science! It's a Girl Thing!"
Science, as a discipline — loaded word, that — requires long-term focus, both to learn a subject and to observe experiments. You need to notice anomalies, exceptions to an expected pattern; if you're very lucky, they can lead to discovery of something novel and important. If you're attracted by videos full of hard cuts, in which the longest uninterrupted segment is somewhat less than a second long, you're probably not going to do well in research.
(To say nothing of the bizarre and distasteful assumptions embedded in that video, about which much has been said elsewhere.)
Now imagining Magnus Pyke doing a voice-over: "She blinded me! With science! It's a Girl Thing!"
