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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    2 years ago

    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?

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      2 years ago

      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.

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        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.

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        2 years ago

        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.