
The idea of covering the building in plastic bubbles that mimic the structure of foam must have sounded cool at one time. And as a physics groupy, I probably would have voted for it if anyone had asked me in advance. Now that I've seen it, I have to say "not so much." It makes me cringe every time the NBC cameras stray across it.

I also love Daina Taimina's crochet math proofs. While at least one physics comic book series looks pretty bad to me.

Reviews among physicists seem mixed on the child-like Einstein statue outside the National Academy of Sciences building in Washington DC. Some love it and some hate it, but I haven't met many physicists who fall in the middle. I love it, both because it's charming and because it has a weird acoustical secret that you can only experience by standing at the center of the star map inscribed on the ground at Einstein's feet and speaking to the statue.

-Buzz
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