http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/geekish-girls.html Science Blog from Freelance Science Writer David Bradley Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:53:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/geekish-girls.html/comment-page-1#comment-47478 Andrew Sun Sun, 26 Nov 2006 03:47:57 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/geekish-girls.html#comment-47478 Geek may be defined as the kind of person who like to push things to the extreme in a particular area. Web 2.0 geeks or web application geeks for instance do everything using the online version of available software and tend to extend the application all over their lives. Marie Curie was a geek because she pushed her interest in radioactivity to the extreme: she discovered radioactivity, both the phenomenon and the substances, and shared her discovery. She used to carry pockets of radioactive isotope around the streets (compared to modern geeks who carry mobile versions of Gmail, Google Calendar, etc. and blog via mobile blogging). She died from massive exposure to radioactivity, which ultimately proved further the effects of radioactivity on the human body. Her life was so extreme in this area that she is truly a geek by definition. I think a good scientist should be a geek to some extent. Geek may be defined as the kind of person who like to push things to the extreme in a particular area. Web 2.0 geeks or web application geeks for instance do everything using the online version of available software and tend to extend the application all over their lives.
Marie Curie was a geek because she pushed her interest in radioactivity to the extreme: she discovered radioactivity, both the phenomenon and the substances, and shared her discovery. She used to carry pockets of radioactive isotope around the streets (compared to modern geeks who carry mobile versions of Gmail, Google Calendar, etc. and blog via mobile blogging). She died from massive exposure to radioactivity, which ultimately proved further the effects of radioactivity on the human body. Her life was so extreme in this area that she is truly a geek by definition. I think a good scientist should be a geek to some extent.

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