I'm doing mine on a sexy topic - the politics of oil........

....well at least I think it's sexy.

Eska that's so interesting! And after all these years I have mocked him for it! I am going to email him now and ask how he's getting on with it. M x

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I am just writing my thesis up, and I've spent 3 years cooling little gadgets down to -272.996°C, playing with cryogens and looking at quantum turbulence. Is that weird enough?!

hmm - does it mean you have access to make ice cream really quickly? - my dream job :-x

Yes, I can make ice-cream in about 20 seconds with liquid nitrogen! There's no way I could dance my PhD either hahaha!

I could probably dance my PhD... In fact I may just do my viva using charades...

This is an excellent suggestion for a replacement viva format; I'm no contemporary dancer but I could sing it and then cry. Oh wait, I probably will cry in the viva anyway...

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Geography.. hmm, weird?

i think it is normal - but apparently baffles others: 'experimental travel and anti-tourism encounters'...

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I know a guy doing a PhD on the subject of 'Star Trek'.

Hey Huxley - I take it from your board domination that you're in for a late one too? As for that phd, star trek, seriously? Wow.
And I thought that my linking psychiatry with food allergies (via genetics) was weird!

Nice one Huxley. That's the kind of thing we were looking for. It's even worth a tweet me thinks.

I am doing a PhD in Computer Science on using textual analysis techniques to generate a high-dimensional representation of a webpage (in particular blogs). I am then using an object movement prediction algorithm to come up with a measure of normality of change so I can identify abnormally change incidents in a webpage.