Above Image Credit: "Piled Higher and Deeper" by Jorge Cham. www.phdcomics.com.
Anyone have any similar stories to tell about tv shows solving their research topic in three hours?
Friday, April 10, 2009
Science in the Media
I study mineral dust that is blown by the wind from continent to continent. There was an episode of CSI or Law & Order in which a suspect was caught by matching dust found on their boot to dust found at a crime scene. I found myself thinking, "wow it's taken me a year and a half to come up with a method to source dust, and they pulled it off in 3 hours!" The technology and science used on those shows is humorous to those of us actually trying to perform it. I think the sentiment was caught nicely by this cartoon from Jorge Cham of phdcomics.com:
Above Image Credit: "Piled Higher and Deeper" by Jorge Cham. www.phdcomics.com.
Anyone have any similar stories to tell about tv shows solving their research topic in three hours?
Above Image Credit: "Piled Higher and Deeper" by Jorge Cham. www.phdcomics.com.
Anyone have any similar stories to tell about tv shows solving their research topic in three hours?
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One version of Law and Order SVU used 14C, half life of 5730 years, from a girl's eyeballs to figure out that a girl was 14 years and some number of months. Right.
A CSI episode involved taking maggot juice straight from a maggot and putting it straight on a GC-MS and getting the results in 15 seconds with a nice print out and no data interpretation, needed.
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