Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Hilarious interview with new Nobel Laureate Jeffrey C. Hall



I bet anything this is the first Nobel Laureate to have been interviewed while wearing a "Brawndo" hat.
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  1. AnonymousOctober 4, 2017 at 7:43 AM

    That was awesome and made my morning after a hellish commute. I wonder if sales of Brawndo will rocket as a result. I heard it has electrolytes.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 4, 2017 at 9:52 AM

    Idiocracy indeed.

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  3. AnonymousOctober 4, 2017 at 9:59 AM

    As I said the other day, I knew CRISPR wouldn't win, not any time soon anyway.

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  4. AnonymousOctober 4, 2017 at 11:06 AM

    Scientists are real people, just a bit crazier.

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  5. milkshakeOctober 4, 2017 at 11:18 AM

    Kary Mullis was surprised on the beach and interviewed about his Nobel in Neoprene suit with his fellow surfers. They were pulling leg of the journalist - when the lady came and asked who is Mullis, they pointed someone else to her, so she interviewed him and the surfer dude managed to "seriously" answer about five questions before telling her who the real Mullis was

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    1. AnonymousOctober 4, 2017 at 2:03 PM

      Kary Mullis also looks like Sting.

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    2. AnonymousOctober 4, 2017 at 4:36 PM

      I seem to recall that the Nobel article Mullis wrote for Angew Chem was, well, different.

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    3. milkshakeOctober 4, 2017 at 5:39 PM

      Mullis seriously abused dissociative drugs - nitrous oxide and ketamine. I was reading his autobiography, and most definitely his thinking got nutty and he was seeing things.

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    4. WavefunctionOctober 4, 2017 at 8:19 PM

      Yeah, the title "Dancing Naked In the Mind Field" should give you an idea of what kind of person he is.

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    5. AnonymousOctober 5, 2017 at 12:04 PM

      I wouldn't be too worried about a scientist going a bit nutty or having too fond a relationship with psychedelics, but when you start promoting dangerous ideas like HIV being harmless and the real cause of AIDS being the HIV drugs pharmaceuticals are manufacturing, then I start to frown upon our Dr Mullis.

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    6. milkshakeOctober 5, 2017 at 12:23 PM

      The trouble with psychedelics is that they can give you powerful mystic notions that feel like tremendous insights. Suspending critical thinking is bad for a scientist.

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    7. AnonymousOctober 5, 2017 at 1:16 PM

      To each their own.

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    8. AnonymousOctober 5, 2017 at 2:15 PM

      Anon 1:16 I would agree, except when someone uses their Nobel Prize winner-credentials to promote things they know nothing about - in the case of Mullis, HIV and climate change denialism, not to mention promoting astrology.

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  6. AnonymousOctober 4, 2017 at 12:06 PM

    I can't remember too many interviews with Nobelists in Harley-Davidson t-shirts, for that matter.

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  7. WavefunctionOctober 4, 2017 at 1:48 PM

    Looks like a prime candidate for the "Professor or Hobo" website.

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