http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7DkeQ0roAM

I do wish science was more interspersed with humour in India. Yesterday I
attended a lecture by Dr. Pamela Gay about Citizen Science:

http://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/event-view.cfm?Event_ID=16267

and she spoke about how lay people, punning after finding
pea-coloured-and-shaped structures through a telescope (the pictures were
posted, entitled, "Give Peas A Chance") led to discoveries about these
astronomical phenomena.

I find, in India at least, that scientists of my generation seem to
TTS...Take Themselves Seriously. And truly, science seems to have got
divorced from ordinary citizens.

Perhaps that's changed with the new generation....

Cheers, Deepa.

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