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« Random cephalopodia | Main | You know that smell when something goes bad in your refrigerator…? »

Oh, this is just too shallow

Category: Weirdness
Posted on: September 4, 2006 12:42 PM, by PZ Myers

Now you can play Scienceblogger Hot or Not. I don't know whether to approve or not.

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#1

Is Shelley the only woman on there? And am I not hot enough to even be included? Where's Cyberspace Rendezvous?

Posted by: coturnix | September 4, 2006 12:48 PM

#2

Isn't this a rhetorical question? Or perhaps a moot point? It seems a little like asking "Who is the hottest math teacher?" Perhaps I am surrendering to nerd stereotypes. I blame years of oppression.

Maybe that's why it was such a shock to me when a colleague surreptitiously showed me a page from a recent issue of The Advocate. It showed an interview with a twenty-something porn star who said he planned to be a math teacher when he finished putting himself through college with his X-rated career. Neither one of us has had the balls to post the interview in the faculty break room. "Future hot math teacher! Can we stand the comparison?"

Maybe I should do a blog post. The accompanying picture was not X-rated. It just didn't look like any of the math teachers I've ever seen before (either at school or in the mirror).

Posted by: Zeno | September 4, 2006 1:36 PM

#3

I don't rate either, coturnix. :) Didn't even see PZ on there either.

Posted by: Tara C. Smith | September 4, 2006 2:20 PM

#4

If it's any consolation, when I clicked through, you were outperforming the picture of a chimp in reading glasses at Flags and Lollipops - Bioinformatics Blog, but only by 18 to 21.

Posted by: Kansas Anarchist | September 4, 2006 2:21 PM

#5

When I clicked there were two guys, boys really, and I do prefer a more mature (and geeky) man. Does that help ease the trauma?

Posted by: Mena | September 4, 2006 3:11 PM

#6

No offense to coturnix, but I think Tara definitely belongs on there.

Posted by: Dennis | September 4, 2006 4:02 PM

#7

Let me go on record right now. Tara Smith is the hottest science blogger.

Posted by: Uber | September 4, 2006 6:09 PM

#8

There seems to be a trend towards any recogniseably female picture being rated at least 10 points higher than anything else. Perhaps this says something about the demography of ScienceBlogs readers?

Posted by: Mesk | September 4, 2006 6:44 PM

#9

PZ is in there.

The gorgonopsian is a great idea!

Posted by: David Marjanović | September 4, 2006 7:02 PM

#10

I don't rate either, coturnix. :)

Shocking; Tara got my vote before even clicking on the link.

Posted by: truth machine | September 4, 2006 7:45 PM

#11

Isn't this a rhetorical question? Or perhaps a moot point?

No. No. Do you know what these terms mean?

It seems a little like asking "Who is the hottest math teacher?"

Actually it's a lot like that, and like that it is neither a rhetorical question nor a moot point.

Perhaps I am surrendering to nerd stereotypes. I blame years of oppression.

I blame a poor education, resulting in your failure to understand the concept of "sample space".

Posted by: truth machine | September 4, 2006 7:50 PM

#12

Well, PZ mysteriously has a relatively high score...

Posted by: Alon Levy | September 4, 2006 8:05 PM

#13
I blame a poor education, resulting in your failure to understand the concept of "sample space".

Hmm. No, it couldn't be that. My education was very, very good.

Posted by: Zeno | September 5, 2006 1:39 PM

#14
There seems to be a trend towards any recogniseably female picture being rated at least 10 points higher than anything else.

[Kicks her profile pic.] Is this thing on?

Posted by: Dr. Free-Ride | September 5, 2006 9:29 PM

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