{"id":9553,"date":"2014-08-14T03:52:43","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T07:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=9553"},"modified":"2014-08-14T03:52:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T07:52:43","slug":"eureka-its-a-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2014\/08\/14\/eureka-its-a-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Eureka! It’s a Talk!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kate and I had a very nice time doing touristy things in Bath yesterday during the day– old church, very old hot spring, Georgian architecture– then went on to Bristol where I gave a talk on the forthcoming book<\/a>, as you can see in the picture above. I would ordinarily include a SlideShare link to the slides I used for the talk, but the talk is so image-heavy and the hotel wi-fi so grindingly slow that I’m not even going to attempt uploading it.<\/p>\n

The first bit, as you might guess from the photo above, was basically the same as my TED@NYC talk last fall<\/a>, making an analogy between the development of quantum physics and the solving of a crossword puzzle. Of course, that was only six minutes, so I added two more analogies, between doing astronomy and playing bridge and between the science of timekeeping and playing soccer<\/del> football (we’ll defer to the linguistic preferences of my gracious hosts). That last bit included a fake Lukas Podolski quote, a cheap Wayne Rooney joke, and a gratuitous Luis Suarez .gif, all of which went over about how I had hoped (which is nice, because that was the riskiest part of the talk).<\/p>\n

As is often the case (the TED@NYC thing was a rare exception), the talk as delivered was a lot different than the text I had typed out, with a few on-the-fly additions. I think it went well, though, and the audience response was very positive (always a good thing when giving a talk for the first time). After the talk, we had a very nice dinner with folks from the IOP, and then caught a series of trains back to our hotel on the fringes of London; we had feared we would miss the last Tube trains, but aside from one close call with a janitor prematurely closing a security gate, we made it back without incident.<\/p>\n

So, a very good, but very long day. Worldcon starts today, and I’m doing a Kaffeeklatsch at 6pm (if you’re at the con, come by…). We may squeeze in a little more tourism in the morning, because the program before coffee is kind of light on stuff I want to see, but we’ll be around. If you’re in London, say hi.<\/p>\n

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Me, speaking at the Bristol Festival of Ideas at the IOP Publishing offices. (Photo by Kate Nepveu)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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