Comments on: Chad Orzel Monkey Dance Update, 10/17

By: Ewan

Ewan — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:55:19 +0000

In case it hadn’t been noticed: $6K duly reached.

Monkey dance en route ;-).

{And a bunch of kids helped, too. Ten karma points to Chad and John.}

By: GTD Wannabe

GTD Wannabe — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:10:08 +0000

Wow, I’m so inspired that I just gave $10. And I don’t have kids. Or live in the States. Damn you Scalzi, you pushed all my buttons again! (But damn you in a, you know, a good way.)

By: agm

agm — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:59:22 +0000

The notable part is not a physicist dancing. Cause Chad's long been surpassed on that front (example). The notable part involves the nexus of dancing and blogging and nerd famous.

By: Matt Jarpe

Matt Jarpe — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:46:16 +0000

I once got in trouble in graduate school when I called yeast “lower eukaryotes” in front of a yeast researcher. She gave me a stern look and said “We prefer the term ’smaller eukaryotes.’” I never made that mistake again.

I believe chimps would prefer the term “hairier primates,” but it isn’t really precise. Take a look at Dan Hedya fr-ex.

By: Pan troglodytes

Pan troglodytes — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:43:03 +0000

We chimps are “greater” in terms of strength and agility. Also in our ability to get termites out of a mound using only a stick.

Yummy termites.

By: Tetris

Tetris — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:55:44 +0000

Pan Troglodytes @ 1: Well, chimps are certainly “lesser” in the sense of “smaller”.

By: Tetris

Tetris — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:53:34 +0000

Pan Troglodytes @ 1: Well, chimps are certainly lesser in the sense of smaller…

By: John Scalzi

John Scalzi — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:23:22 +0000

By all means.

By: DG Lewis

DG Lewis — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:18:42 +0000

John,

I have to say that “the kid you help learn about science today could become the doctor who saves your sick ass 25 years from now” is the best reply I’ve yet heard to all the people who whine, “My kids aren’t in public school, why should I have to pay property taxes to support it?” I mean, you can talk about societal benefit and such all you want, but as usual, you have distilled it down to the essence.

I may quote you.

With proper attribution, of course.

By: Pan troglodytes

Pan troglodytes — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:15:03 +0000

I hope that we get to see this.

However, I resent that you refer to non-human primates as ‘lesser’. To your eyes, perhaps. To me and my fellows, chimps are the pinnacle of evolution.

I’ve been following your blog with interest ever since that tourist dropped her laptop into the chimp cage in the Toronto Zoo. Good thing we get WiFi here.