{"id":517,"date":"2006-08-21T11:58:36","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T11:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/21\/science-fantasy-camp\/"},"modified":"2006-08-21T11:58:36","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T11:58:36","slug":"science-fantasy-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/21\/science-fantasy-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Fantasy Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

60 MinuteS<\/cite> last night had an interview\/profile thing on Michael Jordan, shot mostly at his fantasy camp for rich middle-aged guys. For those who haven’t encountered the concept before, this is a pseudo-basketball-camp thing where investment bankers pay $15,000 apiece to spend a few days playing basketball with Michael Jordan. Or, based on the shots they had of the games, standing around stupidly while Jordan makes them look silly.<\/p>\n

This got me thinking that this is a market we really need to exploit. I mean, granted, there are a lot more ex-jocks with a spare $15,000 than there are scientist-wannabes, but given the way our economy is set up, we seem to have a nearly infinte number of people with way too much money. Surely, there are people out there who would happily shell out, say, $1,000 to spend a few days proving theorems with Ed Witten, or sitting in the control room at CERN with Carlo Rubbia, or something.<\/p>\n

As a discipline, we need to find a way to tap into this market. I’ll gladly volunteer myself– for $500, you can come into my lab and help me wind magnet coils… You can sleep on the couch in the student lounge– it’ll be just like being a grad student, only, you know, less angst-ridden.<\/p>\n

Question for the audience: If there were such a thing as a famous scientist fantasy camp, and you had $15,000 to spend on it, who would you want to spend a week working with?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

60 MinuteS last night had an interview\/profile thing on Michael Jordan, shot mostly at his fantasy camp for rich middle-aged guys. For those who haven’t encountered the concept before, this is a pseudo-basketball-camp thing where investment bankers pay $15,000 apiece to spend a few days playing basketball with Michael Jordan. Or, based on the shots… Continue reading Science Fantasy Camp<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}