"What if the Kardashians were physicists?" asks César Hidalgo, an associate professor at MIT and director of the Collective Learning group at the MIT Media Lab.
Fortunately they're not, but that odd-sounding blend might be the best way to imagine Hidalgo's new project: a video series called "In My Shoes" that documents his professional life as a researcher and his personal life as a husband and father of a young daughter.
The final product—eight episodes ranging in length from 10 to 20 minutes—can be viewed at https://www.inmyshoes.info.
"The goal of the series is to help show younger people considering an academic career what the day-to-day of the life of a scholar is like," he said. "Personally, I think that this would have been very useful to me 20 years ago, when I was considering an academic career but had no role models in Chile."
Hidalgo self-recorded his life over the course of three months in 2016. During that time, he traveled extensively—from Boston to Washington, D.C.; Saudi Arabia; Switzerland; Portland; Monterrey; and Paris.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday March 29 2017, @06:10AM (2 children)
Waking up.
Palpating wife.
Receiving electromagnetic spectrum of newly showered young daughter.
Calculating the probability of being hospitalized from the current breakfast of toxins and GMO, and actually being capable to do it in the head.
Being locked into a car queue and wondering why Musk haven't fixed personal rapid transit (PRT), like yesterday.
Locating where all young.. students.. non-male.. with insufficient and chronic textile deficiency are.
Email.. more email.
Filing in papers to get feature funds that will finance more paper filing to get funds.
Imitate online lectures to students imitate learning.
Rush to the cellar putting out a fire in the dope production.
Talking shit and eating shit while hearing the same from others.
Drive home before the zoombies come out and the IoT pwn0d door lock shuts down.
Now I demand one Oscar and two Pulitzers!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @06:52AM
lewd!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @07:17AM
Ok... I award you the Pullet-Surprise!
( handing over one rubber chicken ... )