{"id":2147,"date":"2008-01-07T11:26:45","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T11:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/01\/07\/dorky-poll-just-one-lecture\/"},"modified":"2008-01-07T11:26:45","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T11:26:45","slug":"dorky-poll-just-one-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/01\/07\/dorky-poll-just-one-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorky Poll: Just One Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

I unwisely agreed to cover the first class for one of my colleagues with a late-arriving flight back from break before finding out when<\/strong> the class met, which was 8:00 this morning. As a result, my whole morning blog routine was disrupted.<\/p>\n

I’m saved from having the site go completely dark, though, by an email from a colleague who’s teaching a course on science fiction, asking if I’d be interested in doing a guest lecture. I’m open to the idea, but I don’t know what I would talk about. So, here are two Dorky Poll questions, one very specific:<\/p>\n

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1) If I were to do one guest lecture for a class on SF, what should I talk about?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

and one more general:<\/p>\n

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2) If you had the chance to give one guest lecture to an audience of college students on any topic of your choosing, what would you talk about?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

My answers:<\/p>\n

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1) I would probably lean toward either “portrayal of scientists in SF” or “New Space Opera” as a topic. It kind of depends on what they’re reading for the class, though, and I didn’t get to pick that.<\/p>\n

2) Bose-Einstein Condensation. This is a bit of a cheat, as I have a “simulated lecture” that I do for a summer program for disadvantaged kids, so I already have the slides. (I also cribbed most of it from Bill Phillips’s public talks…). It’s a great topic, though, full of weird quantum stuff.<\/p>\n

What would you talk about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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