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From: sra@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Frozen Stars
Message-ID: <938@oddjob.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 12:48:40 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 23 12:48:40 1985
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Reply-To: sra@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson)
Organization: University of Chicago, Department of Physics
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In article <275@ecsvax.UUCP> dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) writes:
>Back when I was in college someone gave a talk entitled "A Black Look At
>Black Holes."  Came the talk we found the lecture hall filled with about
>30% scientific types and 70% humanities.  The humanities types began to
>filter out when they realized the nature of the topic.  Presumably they
>assumed the talk had something to do with race, although in any context
>other than physics the expression is obviously offensive.
>-- 

We often get "humanities types" at the physics colloquia here, especially
when the talks have exotic or "sexy" titles such as the above.
They probably begin to filter out when they realize that the talk is
technical in nature and therefore not understandable without some
background.

				Scott Anderson
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