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Dr. Angela Collier plays the Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and talks at length about what went wrong with string theory, and how that affected science communication.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Im about 20 mins in. Seems interesting and knowledgeable but why the game? Is it a quirk of her or do ppl like to watch it? Is this what twitch did?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

She made a comment about it early on. I think it's to distract her a little so she doesn't just spend the next hour talking in detail about maths.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah. I've seen her do other videos and she doesn't play a game. I think it might just have been a way to keep the tone conversational. Near the end, as she got the complex stuff, the game got harder and her presentation suffered a little. I'm hoping she doesn't stick with this format: not my favority.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's what writing a script ahead of time is for.

Leave it to a physicist to think they need to resolve every problem in other fields.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure what you mean, is string theory not part of physics? But yeah she said she has a list of things to go through, more dot points than a script. Her normal videos are typically scripted though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Is this the difficulty in communication she's referring to? That she has to play video games when discussing scientific topics like she's Sam Bankman-Fried?