Now that's a PhD!

Hitchhiker's Guide to... · 19-01-2006 5:25pm #1

Fair play on that PhD student, Laoise Moore, in Trinity whose research led to this story: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2091-1986072,00.html about the most fertile man in Ireland.

Just about every news outlet in the world has been talking about it. The Guardian have been giving crazy coverage to the story. It was even the most popular news story on yahoo.com for a while yesterday. That's got to be a good start to any research career!

440Hz · 19-01-2006 5:29pm

Gee!! Thats a good one alright... I doubt my PhD will ever have such a popular culture buzz!!

Hitchhiker's Guide to... · 19-01-2006 5:55pm

lol - they never give credit for 'cultural buzz contribution' in the viva!

440Hz · 19-01-2006 5:59pm

Roundtower2 wrote:

lol - they never give credit for 'cultural buzz contribution' in the viva!

Maybe we should start a campaign? Think two of us could force a change?

Hitchhiker's Guide to... · 19-01-2006 6:07pm

maybe after the viva, when we're on viva panels in the future we could rock the system by making comments on the lines of:

"your work is technically excellent, makes a brilliant contribution to its area, but i just found it a bit boring...i want you to include more exclamation marks, and jokes, and pictures in it before i pass it. Also, maybe include a funky colour border on the pages..."

440Hz · 19-01-2006 6:09pm

Sounds good to me... I think you def. have the right idea... What a great supervisor you will make

Time Magazine · 20-01-2006 1:16pm

Christ :eek:.

That's really terrifying. There's a >21% chance that I'm a descendent of him. That's really, really weird. We really are quite an inbred nation like. Going by that, on average, at least one person who reads this is my distant cousin!

Nuts.

Hitchhiker's Guide to... · 20-01-2006 1:22pm

sleep with anyone in Ireland, you probably ARE sleeping with your cousin. Bear it in mind. This is no longer just a Cavan thing...

Time Magazine · 20-01-2006 1:24pm

Aye, but study in the Business School and your cousin could probably try get you some good tips for Schols exams....

....isn't that right, dear old Michael?

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Hitchhiker's Guide to... · 20-01-2006 1:49pm

Cousin Banana, I wish you all the best in your exams! It's good to see the family trying to do well for themselves...

Time Magazine · 20-01-2006 1:53pm

Ara here...

...at least source me the new SF Marketing lecturer's qualifications. Her name is Deborah Kelly, and she's not in PeopleFinder (and thus the Calender, I presume) yet.

She's young and talks at c.4000 wpm.

Or I'll be up to hit you with a stick

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Hitchhiker's Guide to... · 20-01-2006 2:14pm

Have no idea who she is. Is she a lawyer by training?

Time Magazine · 20-01-2006 3:04pm

I don't think so. She's big into her marketing. She's only in on Fridays I think.

Ask Marie Keating for me or something

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Or Dónal, there's a job for you. Source her credentials, I want to fake a complaint if necessary.

Ron DMC · 20-01-2006 3:06pm

Angry Banana wrote:

Or Dónal, there's a job for you. Source her credentials, I want to fake a complaint if necessary.

Leave him out of it, he has enough to be doing: like sending me contact details for the wand and sceptre committee.

ApeXaviour · 20-01-2006 6:13pm

Angry Banana wrote:

That's really terrifying. There's a >21% chance that I'm a descendent of him. That's really, really weird.

It's probably a whole lot more. With my (admittedly limited) knowledge of genetics that 21% is your chance of direct unbroken paternal descent. (right bio people?). That means that the chances that any of us (of irish heritage) are actually descended from him would be well up in the 90's percent I'd make a stab at reckoning.

DrIndy · 20-01-2006 8:04pm

I'm from donegal!

I feel very slutty

Hitchhiker's Guide to... · 21-01-2006 12:59am

DrIndy wrote:

I'm from donegal!

no, you're not - maybe the long hours are affecting your memory

Now that's a PhD!

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