Dan Sarewitz, a professor of science and society at Arizona State University, said calling Obama a geek is unfair both to the president-elect and geeks.
''He's too cool to be a geek; he's a decent basketball player; he knows how to dance; he dresses well,'' Sarewitz said. ''It's too high a standard for geeks to possibly live up to.''
Hey!
From the NYT.
bioephemera is art + biology - anything and everything from representations of science in art and literature to the neuroscience of aesthetics. Along with lots of other stuff that's just plain interesting.


Comments
Obama is way too cool to be a geek. No geek could ever say, "We are the ones we've been waiting for" without busting out in laughter or lead a group of mindless twits chanting "Yes we can!" without dying from embarassment.
Posted by: Joel | December 27, 2008 5:12 PM
Something tells me he's projecting...
Posted by: Tyler DiPietro | December 27, 2008 7:21 PM
you call this dancing? In any case, I am pretty sure that being called a geek is a compliment these days.
Posted by: rhett | December 27, 2008 8:35 PM