STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania — BY day, Kasha Patel works at the National Aeronautics Space Administration (Nasa), writing content for its website. But she spends her nights communicating scientific discovery through an altogether different medium: stand-up comedy. “So I found that my science jokes do 40 percent better than my other jokes,” she said, adding she was working on an algorithm to automate the analysis. “It’s great for scientists to get out there and talk about the research because they are the expert on the research,” she said, even if not everyone can do so through jokes or comedy routines. “We think of science as this kind of academic ivory tower … (but) there’s a value in making it entertaining, as long as you’re not losing scientific accuracy,” she said.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer November 11, 2019 20:51 UTC