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It’s time for the late-night regurgitation and cramming that stalks every student during midterms. The class is Physics 181, “Statistical Mechanics.” The topic is semiconductors. The study resource is...Britney...
That’s right. Many an undergraduate in need of a valence review for quantum mechanics has turned to the pop princess’ online study aid: Britney Spears’ Guide to Semiconductor Physics (http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm). The website, which was written and designed by Carl Hepburn, a post-graduate physics major at the University of Essex, UK, has been around for two years, since Hepburn celebrated his admiration by placing the famous pop star amidst descriptions of valence and conduction bands...
...site index greets viewers with a picture of Britney lounging in her typical sultry, seductive, “come-hither” fashion. The cartoon bubble emanating from her mouth holds one of the many equations for the Density of States, one the most ubiquitous required formulas in the field. The site has a Google search engine option, cleverly altered to “Booble,” not to mention various indexes with payloads worth of textbook information on semiconductors. And of course, every page of equations has—you guessed it—random pictures of Britney...
...girls club (it's lowercase, so it's art!) says that feminism today is about both power and femininity. So does The Powerpuff Girls, but it's easier to walk the line between girl-positive feminism and silliness with little-girl superheroes than with grownup lawyers dressed like Britney Spears circa 1999. More problematic, girls club is so self-consciously about, y'know, women's stuff that almost every story defines the characters in terms of gender: Jeannie gets sexually harassed, Lynne is accused of infatuation with a male client, Sarah blurts out an anti-lesbian slur. Lest you miss...
...night? Come evening, Aidai took me on the local disco crawl. Consisting of tracksuited Slavic youths throbbing to Russian and Turkish pop, the scene was not exactly sophisticated. One place offered little more than loudspeakers on an outdoor basketball court and a projector showing Britney Spears videos in reverse. Luckily, the cheap Moldovan wine flowed copiously...