It’s Wednesday, people, and we think it’s time for a guest comment. Today’s note comes from a reader in New York … and given all the bad news coming out of that city this week, we’re happy to spread some of the funnier stuff.
Last Wednesday, our reader was surfing the net (perhaps fearing the end of world) as he surfed up to post about the amazing work going on a CERN on Tom Feilden’s blog on the BBC Radio Today Programme website. He saw the first photo in that post and he was amused.
Our reader writes:
I saw the photo, and it just made me smile – and though one shouldn’t generalise, they all look exactly as one would envisage particle physicists to look. No doubt the eye-strain from the result of years spent in dark labs, and reading long hours. As a glasses wearer too, I can empathise, though sadly I lack the genius that no doubt they have. I just hope that they know what they are doing, recreating the big bang – even if on a micro-scale!
Our many thanks to our reader for sending in this in. And we’ll end by reminding all that we continue to welcome contributions via email.
The link between glasses and genius is often repeated.
I was recently told that I was over-prescribed last year and it was just as well I did not wear much the reading glasses I was given. Now with them taken away, I am wondering if people will look askance at the PhD… Should I keep the grey hair? Or put on weight? Or start dressing like a tramp? To be taken seriously… Just wondering.
Perhaps the glasses are just some high-tech “black-hole proof” eye protection of which we (the general citizenry) have not been informed?
@ Shefaly
Perhaps you should consider taking the genius “under cover” so to speak. Rather than cultivating the look of a wise old master, you can catch people off-guard by NOT looking the part of a genius.