The Haiku Thesis Project
[below is the introduction to my new project, as it is written in the book]
In the spring of 2010, Chris Cunningham, University of Oregon honors college senior, finished his thesis.In order to save people from having to read pages and pages to understand his topic, he compressed his thesis into a haiku. It grew from there . Soon he began searching for like-minded friends and colleagues who would add their theses and the Haiku Thesis Project was born.
If any one wants to add their thesis to the book, let me know! I am accepting all entries, whether you are finishing up now, like me, or you finished last year, or you are in the process, but know your results. Even if you wrote a thesis 50 years ago. if you can remember your writing and want to paraphrase it into a haiku, do so.
Send me:
- the full title of the thesis
- Your name as you want it to be seen
- the term and year it was finalized (or expected to be if you have not defended yet)
- the school you wrote it at
- and your haiku.
Optionally, you can run into me in person and write it in the little moleskin book I am keeping for this purpose.
These might only be published on my blog (cleverpork.com) or they might eventually be made into a little book. Who knows.
The goal is to present knowledge that is locked away in these theses in a way that doesn't force people to spend hours reading the text.
Here is my entry, as it appears in the book right now:
High School Science Course Order and its Effect on Student Attitudes and Beliefs
Chris Cunningham
Spring 2010
University of Oregon
Why enjoy science?
Probably your teacher's fault
Not your course order.
Thesis Summary Day 2: Haiku
I am providing some amusing ways to summarize my thesis to the world. Today I re-wrote it to fit into a haiku format, you know, syllables in groups of 5-7-5.
Why Enjoy Science?
Probably your teacher's fault,
Not your course order.
Come back tomorrow for Episode 3: LOL Thesis Edititon.
Thesis Summary Day 1, Twitter
I am providing some amusing ways to summarize my thesis to the world. Today's summary is designed to fit a twitter post. It is exactly 140 charachters, which is the maximum for twitter or a text message.
Thought integrated science was good. No correlation between order and enjoyment of science. Other factors impact attitudes and beliefs more.
Check back tomorrow for Episode 2: Haiku Edition
Soundtrack of Science
For anyone who was a fan of Bill Nye back in the day, you may remember the Soundtrack of Science. I didn't, but I ran into a guy who put all of them up onto one youtube page. (hit the break for some awesome ones!)
Go check them out, they rock! You can also find them through the magic of Google for download, but you might have to play around with some search terms.
Cleverpork Olympic Coverage: Sorry for the Break
In honor of NBC's coverage of the Olympics, where "live" means 3 hours delayed, Cleverpork Central is covering the Olympics in a timely manner. We can't promise daily coverage, but we'll try to keep you informed on the important events at least!
We have two days of coverage today. Day 6 brought the end of the luge, my loss of belief in USA curling and Sean White. Day 7 brought Evan Lysacek gold in men's figure skating as well as some other skiing and stuff.
The real excitement though was watching Sean White. There was a point where I poo-poo-ed snowboarding and was like "why is that in the olympics?" But Watching Sean White do his final run down the hill was quite spectacular. He had already won gold by the time he did his last run (it is a best of 2 runs kind of thing) so he didn't worry about it and did the coolest thing he could. And it was cool. He was getting huge air off of the halfpipe and the trick he did at the very bottom was really awesome. I was a little blown away.
Tomorrow is Skeleton medals, likely more failure from USA curling, and the beginning of Ice dancing. If I get an update. Otherwise, Day 9 is more speed skating, Apolo Ohno in short track, and the start of Women's Aerials skiing.
Cleverpork Olympic Coverage: CURLING
In honor of NBC's coverage of the Olympics, where "live" means 3 hours delayed, Cleverpork Central is covering the Olympics in a timely manner. We can't promise daily coverage, but we'll try to keep you informed on the important events at least!
That's right folks. Curling. In the USA it is only broadcast one time every four years. That time is now. I could cover other sports that occurred today, but my mind is a little blown because CURLING!
Yesterday I started by watching team USA play Germany. Germany dominated. It made me sad for myself. However, soon after I switched to Canada and I fell in love. Not with a person, but with a set of stylish pants.
Most curling associations only allow black pants. It is the tradition to wear black pants. To tell the truth, it was probably a pretty gutsy and arrogant move for Norway to decide to make these awesome argyle pants their official uniform. But I'm glad they did. Already curling is getting more coverage than just "look at this bizarre sport that no one in America understands." While that coverage may be nothing more than "woah check out these pants!" it is a conversation starter.
While Canada won, it was a close match between two of the favorites to win the whole competition. I thoroughly enjoyed te match and am excited to be able to watch curling for the rest of these olympics. Nearly every day. I promise I wont spend all of those days blabbing on and on about it like today, but I will be talking about it. I may even live-blog the gold medal match. Keep your eyes open!
Tomorrow we got day 2 of short track, Men's halfpipe in snowboarding, and pairs luge (another odd sport). Until then I'm going to watch more curling!