In one of his books, Richard Dawkins wrote about the Large Hadron Collider. He noticed in the proofs that it was written "hardon". He asked the proof-reader to leave it, but she said she didn't want to lose her job.
It's been sad watching him digest his brain like a tunicate in recent years, falling for the Imane Khelif story, defending the concept of eugenics, and bizarrely try to secularize Christian nationalism.
I don't remember the actual title of my professor's thesis (on the identification of several new lichens growing on caribou dung,) but he still informally refers to it as "Moose Mess Moss." (And yes, he acknowledges that that's more amusing than correct.)
That is sweet. I can imagine David's chuckling. Glad to know you are continuing The Nature of Things. David has been my science teacher since way back at the begining.
Plus the shop DOESN'T type in the words to print, SHE typed it in and sent them a copy to print. I smell something fishy (pun intended), I believe she just made it up for 'a nice little story' and 'likes'.
I submitted a patent application for a digital filter for electro-cardiograms , titled ECG filter. When the patent office issued the patent five years later I had a patent for an Egg filter.
Sarika, I've sent this one to my family! (Tara and you were best friends when you were 4 and at Palmerston.) Love this story and amused that your thesis supervisor has a great sense of humour. 😍🤩😘
I am deeply jealous of this catchy title - even the originally intended one. Mine is just the usual forgettable word-salad about this protein and its role in that type of cells. Wish that your video had been posted in 2006. it might have inspired me to at least insert a Roman mythology pun.
All that talk about fish and chips makes me hungry... And I read a little bit (abstract, intro.) of your long 2015 PhD thesis paper on fish and ships' noise... It's quite interesting and very technical, and it's beyond me. 😟
Your work is excellent! 👍👍 And since I like ecology, nature, and the nature of things, I'll read your entire paper/book, and hopefully, I'll understand much more... Thanks Doc! 🙂
This reminds me of a story about a man in China who thought he'd found a name for his newborn daughter which people will always remember after seeing it only once. The family name was Ma, which very common in China and it can mean either mother or horse. The father found an obscure character which means running horses, but it sounds the same as another common name. The character has three chevrons on the bottom which look like the legs of galloping horses. The father thought that people will only have to be told once that his daughter's name was not the common-sounding name, but was the other character which means running horses and associate that with the family name which means horse. Unfortunately, when the father attempted to register this name he was told it was not an allowable name. The government's computer system for registering names does not have a code for this obscure character and he would have to name his daughter something else.
Reminds me of the Chemist who wanted to call a new natural sugar he discovered as Whonose or Godnose (like Glucose, Mannose, Fructose etc). The editor unfortunately rejected those names.
I personally like Fish and Ships better and hope that the proper thesis name and the typo are somehow something her future readers can appreciate rather than just thinking Fish and Chips was the title
This is purely coincidence but my final project in college 15yrs ago was also about fish and also victim of typo as well. The original title was something like "Designing a fish detector", however instead they were put as "Chopping off fish detector". Keep in mind that that title was written in my country language, not english, so the typo didn't really translate well, but it roughly meant that way. The moment I read it, I know that I better left it as is 😂
If I had a nickel for every time someone on RUclips explained to me how the printer made a small but devastating typo on the title of their PhD thesis, I would have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice
Sometimes trying to be clever backfires on you. That’s a good advice for any PhD candidates working on a thesis that involves the Large Hadron Collider.
That's an urban legend. The Kong part obviously referenced the 1933 film King Kong, The game's creator Shigeru Miyamoto thought the word "donkey" was a near-synonym of "stubborn", as donkeys can be quite stubborn in real life.
Don't feel bad. Due to a last-minute spell check incident, I turned in a paper on computer history called "Hard Dicks vs Floppy Dicks" and I had hit change all so that it changed every single "disk" into dick. And since disks are described in inches and often inserted into things and some types don't last as long as other types, the ENTIRE paper was basically one big joke. Thank god my professor thought it was hilarious. I was so embarrassed at the time 😂😂😂
How could you even think about wanting to change it ^^ It's the universe joking with you... Fish and Chips is the best possible title for this thesis. Fish and ships sounds like you are trying to be funny with a mediocre pun. Fish and chips is you putting the pun into people's head and owning it ! :)
So you have a PhD, on one species of fish I could do a better job in one year, but you’ll get a whole lifetime of high pay to study a fish that probably has no consequence
" Modern scientists are learning so much about so little that they eventually know everything about nothing." Al Gore once said how Olympic torch was contributing to global warming.
This woman worked hard for that degree, noise pollution is a real (and very annoying!) thing, Al Gore is not a scientist, and technically, yes, burning anything will output CO2 though most is cycled back into living things or the soil fairly quickly.
Somewhere out there somebody ordered a meal and received some fish and a boat just so the universe can remain in balance.
Humor. Arh!
Love this😂
Lol. Really did!
This Needs its own parrallel universe.
A trawler and a haddock.
Any one coming across your thesis will never forget it! Good one!
no one ever comes across theses..except the next grad student in line
@@bermchasin kind of the point here, most will be forgotten, except the few that see this one will remember it
In one of his books, Richard Dawkins wrote about the Large Hadron Collider. He noticed in the proofs that it was written "hardon". He asked the proof-reader to leave it, but she said she didn't want to lose her job.
That reminds me of the Higgs boson. Whenever I see it in print, I want to read it as "Higgs bosom."
It's been sad watching him digest his brain like a tunicate in recent years, falling for the Imane Khelif story, defending the concept of eugenics, and bizarrely try to secularize Christian nationalism.
Cox-Zucker machine, anyone?
@@scotpens For me, it was "Higgs bison!"
I will never remember the name of anyones thesis...except yours. You were given a gift!
sometimes the best things in life are happenstances.
This is so funny! I just can’t stop laughing 😂. Your supervisor was right -it’s golden, but it takes a good sport to leave it as is.
Me too!
Golden and crispy, you might say. Nicely battered.
I don't remember the actual title of my professor's thesis (on the identification of several new lichens growing on caribou dung,) but he still informally refers to it as "Moose Mess Moss." (And yes, he acknowledges that that's more amusing than correct.)
This is absolutely glorious, I'm glad your advisor had the presence of mind to preserve this wonder for the rest of us to enjoy.
That is sweet. I can imagine David's chuckling. Glad to know you are continuing The Nature of Things. David has been my science teacher since way back at the begining.
Yeay, ain't nepotism sweet?
It's great to see that you can look on the positive side and laugh at it.
Ha, ha, ha, ha. Great story Sarika. With a title like that I’m sure your PhD was an extremely memorable one. Good luck in the future.
Living in England I can tell you your supervisor is a typical British person who enjoys quirky things
The shop should have sent you proofs to review before printing it.
Plus the shop DOESN'T type in the words to print, SHE typed it in and sent them a copy to print. I smell something fishy (pun intended), I believe she just made it up for 'a nice little story' and 'likes'.
@@chrisbryan2195 Setting up the embossing machine likely requires more than copy/paste. I assume that is where the mistake occurred.
@@chrisbryan2195 she only sends the manuscript. the machine that embosses the front cover needs to be manually typed in by the printer.😊
The printer's error shows how little we are really in control of our actions. The subconscious rules!🙃
Not really. It just shows that we don't have 100% success in preventing mix ups. You make it sound like our control is minimal.
Very little control - in my opinion almost no control.
@@pendlera2959You don’t have ADHD, do you? Because those folks struggle everyday with overlapping thoughts.
@@pendlera2959our control is somewhat minimal. Free will technically does not exist.
free will is an illusion
I submitted a patent application for a digital filter for electro-cardiograms , titled ECG filter. When the patent office issued the patent five years later I had a patent for an Egg filter.
That IS a good one. Thanks for sharing! Serendipity is amazing!
I like the story behind & the name of the paper.
Sarika, I've sent this one to my family! (Tara and you were best friends when you were 4 and at Palmerston.) Love this story and amused that your thesis supervisor has a great sense of humour. 😍🤩😘
Congratulations! It really is too good of a title!
I am deeply jealous of this catchy title - even the originally intended one. Mine is just the usual forgettable word-salad about this protein and its role in that type of cells.
Wish that your video had been posted in 2006. it might have inspired me to at least insert a Roman mythology pun.
If a plainfin midshipman fish gets caught in a propellor it could com out as chips of fish, so maybe the title isn't too far off.
Good on your research. Ship noise is a threat to marine mammals as well, affecting their communication.
That was a good laugh thank you. This is perfect
I would say that makes it stand out really well I can see why you would have to keep it That's great.
So Long, and Thanks for the Thesis
All that talk about fish and chips makes me hungry... And I read a little bit (abstract, intro.) of your long 2015 PhD thesis paper on fish and ships' noise...
It's quite interesting and very technical, and it's beyond me. 😟
Your work is excellent! 👍👍 And since I like ecology, nature, and the nature of things, I'll read your entire paper/book, and hopefully, I'll understand much more... Thanks Doc! 🙂
Your short video ('The fish sings, and it's incredible.') about the Plainfin Midshipman is very good! 👍👍
great story! now i'm hungry lol
I want to read it now.
Now everytime I eat fish and chips, I will remember your legendary thesis.
Typos do not belong on theses. If you allow errors on your cover page, it sows doubt into everything. I am not being mean or hateful, just honest.
Now I want to read that thesis. Is it available online?
Nice. My phd thesis is on weighted moduli space of rational stable curves.
[laughing] What a story. Thank you for sharing.
And I will think of this resounding fish the next time I eat fish and chips. Thank you so much, that made me laugh my socks of.
Brilliant.
A fundamental typo indeed 😂😂 This is absolutely a mistake I would make
That's awesome :)
That may help it show up more often on search engines. Good luck!
This reminds me of a story about a man in China who thought he'd found a name for his newborn daughter which people will always remember after seeing it only once.
The family name was Ma, which very common in China and it can mean either mother or horse.
The father found an obscure character which means running horses, but it sounds the same as another common name. The character has three chevrons on the bottom which look like the legs of galloping horses. The father thought that people will only have to be told once that his daughter's name was not the common-sounding name, but was the other character which means running horses and associate that with the family name which means horse.
Unfortunately, when the father attempted to register this name he was told it was not an allowable name. The government's computer system for registering names does not have a code for this obscure character and he would have to name his daughter something else.
I love that your thesis supervisor saw the humor 😂
Sarika!!!!
I agree... i wouldnt fix that typo.. it just brilliantly too good! 😂
Reminds me of the Chemist who wanted to call a new natural sugar he discovered as Whonose or Godnose (like Glucose, Mannose, Fructose etc). The editor unfortunately rejected those names.
Why is the CBC publishing video in portrait mode on a landscape medium? How the mighty have fallen.
Omg! Is he gonna reprint?
I personally like Fish and Ships better and hope that the proper thesis name and the typo are somehow something her future readers can appreciate rather than just thinking Fish and Chips was the title
I couldn't hear that she was saying 'ships'. smh
I dont think ive ever wanted to read a thesis more!😂
Oh dear! 😲 And ... hang on a minute while I send this to several people who will enjoy it! 😆
Live by the pun, die by the pun.
Made me laugh before I even heard your explanation. There is something to be said for self-deprecating humor and the ability to laugh at yourself.
As fun as the pun is (as well as the better SEO), at least this one is fun in its own way
Oh man😂 sorry, but that was awesome!!!
This is purely coincidence but my final project in college 15yrs ago was also about fish and also victim of typo as well. The original title was something like "Designing a fish detector", however instead they were put as "Chopping off fish detector". Keep in mind that that title was written in my country language, not english, so the typo didn't really translate well, but it roughly meant that way. The moment I read it, I know that I better left it as is 😂
Cute story.
It’s a dull morning here in Southwest UK…but not now. This made us laugh. Well done. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's very funny! But, they didn't send you a galley proof?
I think the printer deserves a free portion of fish & chips! Congrats to completing your thesis, you're now officially smart 🙂
0:57 IT’s SOOOOO PREEEAAAATY! LOL
that’s gold, I mean purpold!
Fitting revenge of the god of the fish community for being named midshipmen.
If I had a nickel for every time someone on RUclips explained to me how the printer made a small but devastating typo on the title of their PhD thesis, I would have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice
Sometimes trying to be clever backfires on you. That’s a good advice for any PhD candidates working on a thesis that involves the Large Hadron Collider.
Seeing Sarika makes me want to be a Porichthys Notatus.
Okay but the real question: IS Porichthys notatus tasty fried up with chips and a side of mushy peas? The world demands to know! 😂
I continue to be perplexed by our rudimentary complexity.
No worries mate. Have some fish n chips. She’ll be right 👍
as funny as this is... I would at least get a correct copy !! you know for the Aliens of the future visiting earth! lol
In my senior year English comp class one misspelled word earned you an F. 1972 no spell check plus a 25+ yo manual typewriter 🙄
You know, fish and chips, there is no other way 😂😂😂
Halarious! 😊
Mortified, doesn't quite cover an initial reaction .. !
Autocorrect probably
At least it wasn’t Biff and Chip.
What are you talking about
With that PHD she can now go to work for Red Lobster. They need the help.
Thanks, RUclips, I guess I'm here because there's nothing else left for me to watch?
My thesis was called "Tostitos."
Funny as long as harm doesn't ensue.
A British business would have to be a lot more than 100 years old to qualify as "ancient"!
Luckily no one reads those things
🤣🤣😂😂 the comedy
Something FISHY here🐠🦈🐟🎣
excuse the pun sounds like a very tasty title to me lol!
❤
Pass me a fork, please!
Thanks for sharing!
My immigrant friend just said. "I came here on big jello chip" and asked why this video was interesting.
The typo didn't hurt Donkey Kong (Monkey Kong).
That's an urban legend. The Kong part obviously referenced the 1933 film King Kong, The game's creator Shigeru Miyamoto thought the word "donkey" was a near-synonym of "stubborn", as donkeys can be quite stubborn in real life.
Still better than monkey dong I suppose.
Did he invite you for lunch? In the menu fish & ships?
Hilarious, but you never said what “Fist my Hips” meant?
Don't feel bad. Due to a last-minute spell check incident, I turned in a paper on computer history called "Hard Dicks vs Floppy Dicks" and I had hit change all so that it changed every single "disk" into dick. And since disks are described in inches and often inserted into things and some types don't last as long as other types, the ENTIRE paper was basically one big joke. Thank god my professor thought it was hilarious. I was so embarrassed at the time 😂😂😂
Happy little accidents 😅
You are often better off getting peoples attention instantly
LOL
HA HA HA Terrific!!!!!
haha wow :)
How could you even think about wanting to change it ^^ It's the universe joking with you... Fish and Chips is the best possible title for this thesis.
Fish and ships sounds like you are trying to be funny with a mediocre pun. Fish and chips is you putting the pun into people's head and owning it ! :)
lol
Why would one care about this?
So you have a PhD, on one species of fish I could do a better job in one year, but you’ll get a whole lifetime of high pay to study a fish that probably has no consequence
Horrible CBC always turning off comments. Don't want to let others know what we think of you and the terrible job you are doing...
Funny enough
" Modern scientists are learning so much about so little that they eventually know everything about nothing."
Al Gore once said how Olympic torch was contributing to global warming.
This woman worked hard for that degree, noise pollution is a real (and very annoying!) thing, Al Gore is not a scientist, and technically, yes, burning anything will output CO2 though most is cycled back into living things or the soil fairly quickly.