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This year's Dance your PhD winner has taken a different slant – no, “angle” is a better word – on the now-infamous competition: Uma Nagendra has taken to the flying trapeze ropes to beat off a strong field to take the prize. Her entry (video below) covers a topic that doesn't intuitively lend itself to dance, namely how …

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  1. Cliff

    What a brilliant idea

    PhD subjects are often quite arcane and dry and hard to communicate. You have to not just understand your subject but also be able to communicate your subject via analogy in a visual medium, and make it creatively entertaining. This is such a glorious idea for a competition :)

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  2. gerryg

    For the graduation ceremony...

    She will need one of these

    The comments are priceless.

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      Re: For the graduation ceremony...

      very funny, think some of them comment on this site.

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