Anyone watching this evening’s episode of Comedy Central’s new Lewis Black vehicle, The Root of All Evil (10:30, 9:30 Central), might just see some familiar scientists and/or bloggers. Maybe.
Elsewhere, stars of the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory (about which more anon) seem to have been reading up on their Spacetime and Geometry.
No appreciable bump in my Amazon ranking, though.
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April 16th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
About your Amazon ranking, try introducing a full theory of quantum gravity into the next edition (from which general relativity emerges as a classical approximation).
I borrowed your book from the library, but promise to buy a copy when the price comes falls! I know some people are reading your competitor, Sir Kevin Aylward’s General Relativity for Teletubbies, http://www.kevinaylward.co.uk/gr/reimann/reimann.html
Maybe you should follow suite, and spice up your text when it’s reprinted?
April 16th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
I promise I’ll buy your book.
Once I’ve reread my analysis, complex analysis, PDE, geometry and algebra books that I haven’t even opened in three years. Can’t remember a word of it …
April 16th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Your textbook is far more enjoyable than MTW if only because it doesn’t hurt my hand to hold it for awhile.
April 17th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Was it at all difficult to not laugh with Andy Kindler yelling at you? I think the show would be a great deal more funny if it wasn’t so scripted.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Our bit wasn’t scripted at all. Nor, I have to say, was it very funny. Perhaps the show needs some time to find its groove.
April 17th, 2008 at 11:10 am
I see your book is $84, down from $106.
Normally, I’d rant about the cost of textbooks here, but it’s pretty much always been that way. MTW cost me about $40 in 1982. I see it’s about $120 now.
That sounds bad but it’s only about 4% annual inflation.
April 18th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
[...] to participate in a short stupid comedy skit making fun of science and scientists. See here, here and here, for reports on Wednesday’s “Root of All Evil” show from Comedy Central, [...]